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In a new and proliferating profession that swarms with specialists of fiercely focused brilliance, Spaceman Holmes supplies a varied and vital collection of talents. At 40, he had already earned a reputation for big-league engineering triumphs. He had taken charge of RCA's $40 million Talos antiaircraft missile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reaching for the Moon | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

The boys at the Horseshoe Tavern in Boston's proud but impoverished Charlestown district can hardly get over it. Every time they pick up their newspaper-or so it seems-there is their own Dave Powers, sitting as big as life next to the President of the U.S. David...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: One of the Boys | 7/20/1962 | See Source »

Off the Bench. A voracious reader who takes on an enormous load of court work, Black is a diffident and kindly man in his nonworking hours. Married for the second time (his wife of 31 years died ten years ago), to his former secretary, he lives in a handsome Alexandria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: STILL IN THE STORM'S CENTER | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

Protracted Woo. All these efforts to destroy the prevailing Filipino attitude of bahala na (easygoing fatalism) depend largely on U.S. help. As an incentive to foreign investors. Macapagal has made the peso convertible, with good results-the first four months of this year show a $23 million surplus in balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Progress Despite Needles | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

Although St. Paul conducts its local elections without partisan labels, it counts as a definitely Democratic city. Accordingly, it came as a surprise two years ago when plodding George Vavoulis, owner of a small florist shop, got elected mayor by 6,000 votes; Vavoulis ran as an independent, but was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Letting George Do It | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

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