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Once the Cuban trouble began, Russians outside the University--from elevator operators to Moscow subway riders--were "perceptively cooler...

Author: By Gerald R. Davidson, | Title: Bainbridge Describes Difference In Russian Reception After Cuba | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

...Somewhere over the just-awakening revelry of Las Vegas, at 45,000 ft., Walker and -55 Pilot Fitzhugh Fulton began their countdown prior to dropping the X-15 for its flight. Midway in the countdown, Walker interrupted by radio: "We've lost our liquid-nitrogen cooler. My mixing chamber quit." Without the cooler both his special flight suit and his cockpit would turn into bake ovens in the searing, supersonic flight to come. As the mother plane circled slowly, Walker jiggled the mixer handle. "I've worn out my fingers," he complained. Then: "That was touch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Both Sides of the Ball? | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...Painter Mark Rothko in TIME was terrific! "Yet if there is a painter alive who appears to be painting nothing, it is Rothko !" You said it, man-nothing ! You'd better check your art department-I've a hunch someone may be putting bourbon in the water cooler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 24, 1961 | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...just executing some fast footwork with a soccer ball, as he dribbled it around the desk and then passed off to a young man in white bucks and blue blazer, who took the pass behind the water-cooler...

Author: By Randall A. Collins, | Title: The Brothers K. | 3/10/1961 | See Source »

...Grieving is a sense of reaction with motor implications"), are assembled in this handy encyclopedia of death. Financed by the National Funeral Directors Association, the book may indeed make one of the more significant contributions to the U.S. death industry since the invention of Frederick & Trump's Corpse Cooler. It goes a long way toward reconciling its readers to the sentimental (and expensive) horrors of the usual U.S. funeral. The rest of the world, it seems, is not much better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: How the Other Half Dies | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

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