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...ignited in a burst of pale blue flame high above the Atlantic Ocean last week, Centaur took on its proper dignity. The most powerful rocket of its size in the world, built to fire a one-ton Surveyor spacecraft to the moon, the 48-ft. Centaur shoved a dum my Surveyor into a perfect flight toward a preselected point in space, 240,000 miles from earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Flight of the Hangar Queen | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

Audiences have not always cared which was Dee and which was Dum For twelve lean years Arthur Ferrante Louis Teicher, now both 39 orbited the concert circuit, one of a near dozen duo-piano teams whose specialty had as much box office appeal as a concerto for glockenspiel. There was one compensation, as Teicher recalls "You always had somebody to talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pianists: Theme Team | 2/5/1965 | See Source »

...staggering 200,000 of them are expected to leave before the current flood ends. Next week the first of 60 shiploads of Indians will begin docking at the southern ports of Madras and Visakhapatnam. Half a dozen refugee flights from Rangoon are already arriving at Calcutta's Dum Dum airport each day, and the waiting rooms are piled high with the pitiful possessions of the uprooted-lumpy bundles of bedding, cheap suitcases, bright plastic pails stuffed with children's toys and kitchen utensils...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burma: Asians v. Asians | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...course JC has been warned about iniquity. "The danger of moral cancer, as Dad calls it, is ever present," he explains. But could Dad have prepared him for Kitten's un-American attack on television? She dismisses a global panel discussion that JC is ungallantly watching as "dum rockit rackit." When a western comes on, she screams "Whiteman shootin . . . mothahless madass boom boomin crap." Then, jaybird naked, she picks up the offending set bodily and tries to toss it out the narrow window. She fails. "Yeah! Gee-zuz! Ain nothin else I kin do t'kill that bastid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trial by Doxy | 11/9/1962 | See Source »

Died. John Frederick Seiberling, 73, son of the late Frank A. Seiberling, founder of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., who lived by the motto Dum vivimus vivamus ("While we're alive, let us live"), who rejected the business world to spend his life building a large private library and traveling; of cancer; in Akron, Ohio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 27, 1962 | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

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