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...smoking jacket and a blue mood, Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, 66, watched the national election returns as they flashed on the TV screen in his private railway car in Prince Albert, Sask. After eight weeks of flameless campaigning, his private estimate was that his Conservative Party would win 140 seats-not as many as the record 203 seats he held going into the election, but enough to give him a bare majority in the 265-seat House of Commons. He wound up with only 118 seats, and as a minority government would have to accept outside support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: Indecisive Election | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...twelve seconds after 12:45 a.m., almost exactly on schedule, Juno II took off. It climbed loudly but smoothly, arching slightly north of east. For about three minutes the first-stage rocket burned brightly, diminishing slowly with distance. Then its power shut off, and the upper stages coasted flameless for 55 seconds. About 110 miles up and 160 miles distant, the eleven solid-fuel rockets in the second stage ignited as scheduled. The third and fourth stages ignited too, and Pioneer III, Juno II's instrumented moon probe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Juno's Gold Cone | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

...Miner's jargon for a flameless explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: Death in Main West | 4/7/1947 | See Source »

Each of the 250,000 Hupmobile owners in the U. S. will be asked to send to the company the names of at least four prospective Hupmobile buyers. "We acknowledge this service with a trifling gift-a flameless cigaret lighter" (presumably Mr. Andrews' own Elektrolite). The suggested names are turned over to the Hupp sales organization, which will then try some "modified high-pressure." If one of the suggested prospects actually buys a Hupmobile, the person who sent in the name will receive a commission of $20 by going on the Hupp payroll at $5 a week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Hupmobile Adventure | 3/11/1935 | See Source »

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