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...south of Ltibeck, the double barbed wire resumes, and it is no slipshod affair. Cement pylons are sunk 5 ft. into the ground and stand slightly over 6 ft. above it. Each pylon is threaded with seven strands of wire. Along the border a tractor equipped with a posthole digger is busily planting holes every dozen feet. As I watched the work crews through my binoculars, I suddenly found myself staring down the barrel of an East German submachine gun across the barrier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Cold War: Death Strip | 11/24/1961 | See Source »

...Baker's Wife, The Well-Digger's Daughter) first told his sentimental fable of the Marseilles waterfront as a trio of plays, then as a charming film trilogy in the early 19305. Theatergoers will remember with no leap of the heart that by 1954 Fanny had become an overweight Broadway musical. Inexplicably encouraged, Director Josh Logan set about making a new screen version, having prudently purchased the assurance that Pagnol's trilogy would not be shown concurrently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Tour de Tour | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

Among archaeologists, a step backward is a step forward-and last week a giant step backward was reported by British Digger James Mellaart, 31, assistant director of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara, Turkey. In the ruins of Hacilar, an ancient Anatolian town 200 miles southwest of Ankara. Mellaart has discovered the remains of a culture so sophisticated as to shatter all previous notions about Late Neolithic man. In Hacilar 7,500 years ago, women wore jewelry, artists produced the first known realistic sculptures of the human figure, kids played at marbles and men at asik, a game resembling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Backward March | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...chef barbecues, 8; a plastic balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating machine, 13) an underwater torpedo retriever, 14) a movable island crane, 15 ) a high-speed ditch digger, 16) a "pickle picker," 17) a hay pelletizer that makes cookies for cows, 18) a home sound-movie camera, 19) paper clothes, 20) self-lighting cigarettes, 21) a pocket-size phonograph, 22) a gyroscopic stabilizer for hand-held cameras and binoculars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 19, 1960 | 9/19/1960 | See Source »

...emerald green ticket is doughty John Francis Kennedy, 55, a onetime stock clerk and WPA ditch digger whose name did him no harm in winning the maximum three terms as state treasurer (salary: $11,000). Now he wants to be Governor, and has at least a nominally clear field since the withdrawal of a Belmont fisherman named, of course, Kennedy (James M.). A pair of Kennedys are out to succeed incumbent Treasurer John Francis Kennedy: John Michael, 63, a Boston commercial painter, and John Boyle, 59, town manager of Saugus (pop. 20,000), who was an usher at the funeral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MASSACHUSETTS: A Good Kennedy Year | 8/8/1960 | See Source »

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