Word: ets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hollow ball will be one-fiftieth of an inch thick. Jutting from the sphere's surface will be four collapsible antennas and a coupling device that will release the moon from the last of the three rockets needed to blast it into space (TIME, Oct. 17 et...
...silver-mining town of Aspen. Paepcke built Aspen into a center of muscle and mind, with one of the world's longest ski lifts (14,000 ft.) and summer conferences featuring greats of philosophy, education and musiC−Albert Schweitzer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques Barzun, Mortimer Adler, Igor Stravinsky, et al. This week, with the tax evaluation of Aspen increased sixteenfold, Paepcke, 60, prepared to open a new nonprofit enterprise: The Aspen Health Center for basically healthy but pooped businessmen...
Natural freaks-the Blue Man, the Half-Man-Half-Woman, the One-Eyed Man et al.-are carnies, and treated as equals. The conditioned freaks are barely tolerated as "gaffs." Among the gaffs, the "geek"-usually an alcoholic who earns his bottle by biting the heads off live snakes and chickens-is the lowest form of carnival life. The Jungle Girl, who must crawl around a cage of snakes and make animal noises, is only a little higher. But sometimes the jungle girls can double usefully as "sticks"-employees who pretend to be tips in order to attract others...
...twin of the proton but with a negative rather than a positive charge-was once only a well-reasoned theory. Nuclear physicists knew the particle must exist, but not until last year did they lay hands on one, and then they had to create it themselves (TIME, Oct. 31 et...
...Pool Director Bob Doyle (NBC) will call the shots, decide which of the images from scores of cameras will go inside the nation's homes, offices and bars. Between acts the spotlight will fall on the sideshows: Will Rogers Jr., Arlene Francis, Dorothy Kilgallen, George Gallup, Dave Garroway et al. Walt Kelly's Pogo, campaigning for President (on NBC) with "four buckets of cigar smoke," hopes to "lull the regular parties into a false sense of security by repeated attempts to clarify the issues...