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...Conjugal Bed--An acting out in human terms of the fierceness of the queen bee's desire for motherhood and the fate of the drone who dares to satisfy her. Unlikely as it seems, an extremely comic picture. The New Yorker, December...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE MOVIES | 12/12/1963 | See Source »

...spends most of the picture nude between the sheets. She has married him not for his honey but because her own family has no male heir. Her vigor and tenacity in attempting to conceive would be enough to debilitate the entire United States Marine Corps, let alone one poor drone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Actresses: Deadly Queen | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...Gyrodyne Co. of America, Inc., the 1,600-lb., all-weather, buglike aircraft can lift off a destroyer, reach sonar-detected subs as far as 15 miles away, unleash two homing torpedoes and land back on the ship-all at the electronic command of shipboard officers. Called DASH (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter), the system is designed to strike submarines before they get within torpedo range of the destroyers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: DASH It All! | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

...commercial TV camera and dolly can cost as much as $40,000, but the hams can build their own simpler ones for as little as $75. Many of them are using small cameras that the Air Force once used as part of the guidance system on drone bombers-available as surplus material for $100 to $200 apiece. Towers or high antennas are also needed, and before they are ready to broadcast, many TV hams spend as much as $3,000 incorporating such zazzy features as wide-angle lenses. All of them are also ham radio operators by necessity, to supply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Amateurs | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

...Professor David Cavers of the Law School, whose voice is a soothing drone, is the first speaker. He thinks the UN must act as a peacemaker, and not as a prosecutor. The CRIMSON editors have decided he sounds like a personification of an AP machine. Much of the audience has become faintly restive. Hughes has not yet shown...

Author: By Anthony Hiss, | Title: Cuba Protest Meeting | 10/25/1962 | See Source »

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