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...Missouri Ozarks, a real vigorous sport is floatin': people get on what they call "John" boats and just float. This show is a three-day float on the Current River, where the Federal Government wants to create a national park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Sep. 7, 1962 | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...contain an auditorium, a planetarium, a library and a museum. Part of a complex of new state capitol buildings now under construction, the Cultural Center will cost $6,000,000, is being financed by the New Jersey Teachers' Pension and Annuity Fund. The planetarium's dome will float over a reflecting pool, will house an "intermediate space transit instrument" which will project the heavens not only as they appear on earth but from the moon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: The Do-It-Yourself Acropolis | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

With a smile, Chief Warrant Officer Nobuo Fujita surrendered the periscope, while above him, in a watertight compartment on the forecastle deck, waited his Geta float plane. In it, he was about to become the only Japanese flyer to bomb the U.S. mainland in World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oregon: Raider's Return | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...what I want to do, and what I want to do concerns more than just shapes, forms and colors with no relation to a subject." As in many cases with figurative work, he makes vagueness a virtue. There is no definite reason why two figures should be made to float around like Zeppelins while a third remains bound to an ambiguous landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Reappearing Figure | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

...takes a guy by surprise. You hear a kind of crunching sound and you look out of the window. Half an hour ago when the bomb went off, it was plain old flat, sandy Yucca Flats. All of a sudden it's a hole big enough to float a small fleet if you had any water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Dents | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

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