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Meanwhile, poor Esther Williams presumably still could not fathom it all, still may be wondering if she could ever "find a man I can lean on who knows his job. I don't think that's possible in the world of mediocrity known as the television industry...
...usual, Moscow's motives were hard to fathom. Noting that the Soviets had previously tried in vain to get Argentina...
Cosmologists are becoming increasingly confident of their ability to fathom the secrets of the universe. Indeed there are scientists who believe that the cosmologists are too cocky. Last week in Nature, the University of London's William Hunter McCrea examined cosmology with a mathematician's skeptical eye. His conclusion: a built-in mystery to the universe will forever keep cosmologists from knowing what it is really like...
...this reason, there is a large group of successful investors who pay little heed to charts, or what the market as a whole will do. These are the fundamentalists, the security analysts who spend their time studying the profits, prospects and management of individual companies rather than trying to fathom the market's movements. Nobody, they caution, "should buy the market," even when it is going up. Says Belmont Towbin, partner of the highly successful Wall Street underwriting firm of C. E. Unterberg, Towbin Co. (TIME, April 13, 1959): "The general movement of the stock market is the result...
With four days' growth of beard. Skin-diver Art Pinder-so muscular that he looks like two small whales, back to back-jumps into a fathom and a half at Florida's Silver Springs. He shows how an enemy shave cream is useless under these conditions, then lathers up with Mennen Sof' Stroke, which sticks like biscuit dough while he mows the beard. A flavorsome little tuna named Judy Scott then swims into his arms...