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...there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign, And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine; And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay. Perhaps this explains why Khrushchev & Con go to the expense that they do to keep the old goat on display...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 8, 1964 | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

Wisdom Growth. But all the experts agreed that transplantation of a tooth inside the patient's own mouth is indeed worthwhile. The likeliest occasion for using this technique is when an adolescent or young adult loses one of his first molars (as one in three does) because of decay. Then, if the patient has a "wisdom tooth" that has not yet broken through, or is threatening to become impacted, the dentist removes it and uses it to replace the lost molar. This young, "budding" tooth will take root and grow just like any other tooth, except that it will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dentistry: The Limitations of Transplants | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

...through Borges' earlier, labyrinthine short stories. His present pieces are simpler and gloomier. They are filled with a sense of death, of inexorably passing time. But there is always relief in an image, as in a visit to an old coach house where everything is in decay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Man of Many Mirrors | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...predictions of the "way" was clear enough: a particle must exist that has a negative electric charge and a mass- of 1,676 million electron volts. It should have a life span of one ten-billionth of a second after it is formed, and then decay into a xi particle and a pi-meson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Physics: The Eightfold Way | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

This grotesque tale of a happy marriage has the unsettling effect on a reader of a stop-motion film, in which otherwise familiar flowers bud, blossom and decay in a few shallow breaths of a viewer's time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Short, Painful Life | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

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