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...Millions visiting Canada's Expo 67 thought they saw the world's most beautiful subway. Now there is a challenger. Who is the builder, and how does he make his subway "float" in an almost liquid subsoil? (See BUSINESS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Aug. 22, 1969 | 8/22/1969 | See Source »

According to Wall Street legend, the head of a rival firm once impressed directors of a company about to float a securities issue by bringing his father, a revered financier, to a sales presentation. Weinberg, tipped by telephone that he had better do something quickly, hurried to the meeting. His opening words: "I'm sorry, gentlemen. My father is dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: A Nice Guy from Brooklyn | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...promptly named him Apollo Eleven Salim. The Grand Mufti of Egypt, Sheik Ahmed Hereidi; said he approved lunar exploration because "the Koran urges Moslems to look up from their earthly abode to what lies behind the moon and the stars." In Recife, Brazilians planned an off-season carnival with float parades and dancing in the streets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Moon: AWE, HOPE AND SKEPTICISM ON PLANET EARTH | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...clouds here are wonderful. Because of the heat, they are piled up high vertically and the light then hits vertically and the light then hits them at different angles. They look like massive sand castles, and elephants, and horses, and lobsters floating through the sky. Every day like that. Then late in the afternoon, big blue-gray storms start coming up over the delta from the Gulf of Mexico. Then there's thunder and lightning all over the place. Water running down the roof and into your ear. Rain filling up our top down MG until you can float...

Author: By John G. Short, (SPECIAL TO THE SUMMER NEWS) | Title: Lobsters, Christmas Trees, and Sparkles Star in the New Saga of the Deep South | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

Fortunately, Calkins probably realizes all this. He will never be a Lyndon Johnson, frustrated because not worshipped. He would probably laugh if he heard about the Kennedy-Lind-say-Calkins analogies that float around in corners of Cleveland...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hugh Calkins | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

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