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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a matter of time and warm weather before the Charles is lined with hemispheres and sunbathers. The only problem in such a beach umbrella substitute would be its transportation--but geometry may have solved that too. Two geodesic domes fastened together make a geodesic sphere. Couples could climb into this Double Play-dome, seal themselves in with the plastic cover, and roll down Linden or Holyoke Street to the river, before hatching into the sun. Matrix Structures Inc. has the answer for spring escapism: Back to nature via the egg--a geodesical one with a tough vinyl plastic shell...

Author: By Stephen C. Clapp, | Title: A Stately Pleasure Dome | 4/23/1957 | See Source »

Astronomers all over the world were readying their telescopes this week for Comet Arend-Roland. which is about to make an appearance from behind the glare of the sun. This week it should become visible just after sunset, low in the northwest. It will soon climb higher in the sky, but since it will be moving away from the sun, it will gradually lose brilliance, become invisible to the naked eye about June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Comet Coming | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...swim in their effort to plant the seedbed of a viable economy, and that they cannot insist upon sewing too fine a seam in doing it. To put it another way and quite simply, the United Kingdom has its back to the wall in its Spartan efforts to climb out of the slough of despond, and there is no use crying over spilt milk; whilst, if they are but allowed in their own way to put the best face on it they can, the country must eventually be able to stand again on its own bottom, though we cannot expect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Plain as Nose Above Water | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

...moment, at a Greenwich Village brawl. Chayefsky almost dares to face the moment of truth. Hero Charlie is all set to chuck his scruples and climb in the sack with a ludicrously pathetic little bohemienne. But then he realizes what a dope he is to be prowling the streets after something that doesn't seem to exist, when all the time a cozy little wife is waiting for him back home. Suddenly he knows that he "loves" his wife. The conclusion is apparently supposed to be a daring one. At the risk of offending the entire prostitute population, Playwright...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Apr. 15, 1957 | 4/15/1957 | See Source »

With proper reconditioning, some people with heart disease might even be able to climb a lofty mountain without ill effects, Howard B. Sprague '18, lecturer on Medicine, said yesterday...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dr. Sprague Cites Heart Victim Safety | 4/10/1957 | See Source »

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