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...those who have long expected a visit, for Eastbourne is a spa where wealthy Britons in the afternoon of life retire to await its end, lapped in the comfort of hoarded memories, expensive motorcars and the fellowship of their own kind. Noisy intruders are seldom permitted to disturb the genteel gossip and endless bridge games that help time pass for the oldsters in Eastbourne. Yet, last week, all of Britain was abuzz with the awful speculation that skulking, sudden death had forced its way into Eastbourne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: An Intruder at Eastbourne | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...mesons disintegrate in two-millionths of a second, each forming an electron and two neutrinos, and this lifetime is too short to permit thermal motions in the carbon block to disturb them appreciably. When they lodge in the carbon, they are all spinning in the same direction, and under these conditions the parity principle requires that when they disintegrate, they must shoot out the same number of electrons in each direction along their common spin axis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death of a Law | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

...five days of freedom. Said Gomulka bluntly last week: "There will be no freedom for bourgeois [Western-type] political parties in this country." For the anarchy which is the real threat to his power he had a warning: "We shall combat ruthlessly provocateurs, scum, and all those who disturb public order, threaten, or commit lynching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Rebellious Compromiser | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

...victorious season failed to disturb traditional Annex apathy. "We usually win all our games against other girls," commented Sigrid Keyserling '60, newly-elected captain of the Radcliffe team...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...copies) The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care, and a co-chairman of the recently formed National Committee of Physicians and Surgeons for Stevenson, declared that a "high proportion" of psychiatrists are also Democrats, but "their hands are tied" in telling the public. Reason: the disclosure would "disturb their Republican patients and interfere with the healing process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Who's for Whom, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

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