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...girls pull right alongside male motorists; the one at the wheel keeps the car just abreast, the other casually unbuttons her blouse. Blonde "Insurance Nadia," on the other hand, got her name by her habit of gently jostling a male driver's rear bumper, then sidling out to coo that her insurance company will pay damages, if any-and making her proposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Klaxon Girls | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

...ones; something was always going wrong with the male. Doubtless, temperamental Actress Campbell could be impossible, but tough Playwright Shaw could at times seem inhuman. These were love letters without a love affair; as Stella Campbell said, she and G.B.S. were two "lustless lions at play." And for every coo there was a not-always-brilliant snarl. When she first read Pygmalion, she sniffed: "You made Liza a cockney just to torment me," and he snapped back: "I'm surprised you find it so difficult to be common." But Mrs. Pat must have minded his use of dialect less...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Offering on Broadway | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

With an election ahead, the Tory budget scattered benefits among millions. A Rolls-Royce dealer took a column frontpage ad in the Times to coo: "A wonderful budget." On the stock exchange, share prices went to an alltime high...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Releasing the Brakes | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

...Dove is much too keen To let a single bird be seen; To show the pigeons would not do And so he simply paints the coo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Music of the Eye | 10/20/1958 | See Source »

Sneak Killer. Among other things that Balke & Co. studied was sensitivity to an excess of carbon dioxide in the inhaled air. Odorless and tasteless, COo can be a sneak killer: if something went wrong with his oxygen-recycling system or its indicator, a busy spaceman might not notice it until too late. In the altitude chamber, first Balke and then the airmen mounted an Exercycle. Disguised like Martians in a spirometer (breathing measurement) mask, they pedaled frantically off to nowhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Specifications for Space | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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