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...sites around the U.S. It has found that one man in a light plane can do the work of eight in cars or aboard boats, and the time saved often means keeping a valuable well from being wrecked. Magcobar's fleet: 17 planes, mostly float-equipped, which flew 7,200 hours last year at a cost of $144,000, far less than the business they brought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: PRIVATE PLANES ON THE RISE | 2/17/1958 | See Source »

...white clouds float...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 20, 1958 | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...himself looking out over a spacious patio or Roman atrium, a sort of immense Pompeian inner court, to be used as a dining area, with three huge, gold-colored saucers overflowing with vines and ferns suspended at varying heights, and with mother-of-pearl light globes, which seemed to float, for illumination. It was a sight fit for a maharajah's eyes; said Industrialist Hanisch: "Tears started in my eyes when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Palace for Pills | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

Into Madness. His own fight ends without any obvious meaning. Far from Allied planes and destroyers, his crippled submarine strikes a mine and sinks as it steams for port. Teichmann and 19 others put on escape lungs, reach the surface and float helplessly. A flight of gulls lowers, swoops hungrily at the eyes of a comrade Teichmann is trying to save. Exhausted, finally broken by the war, Teichmann slips into madness. Hours later, rescue boats save 9 of the 20 men. Novelist Ott does not say whether Teichmann is one of them. It does not matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Naked & the Drowned | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...only his first name to distinguish himself from his elder brothers. Sculptors Mirko and Dino Basaldella. In a rigorous academic training at Venice, Afro studied the Venetians Giorgione. Titian and Tintoretto, incorporates their delight in light effects in his paintings with such mastery that the colors seem to float ambiguously before and behind the canvas surface...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bel Canto Painting | 1/6/1958 | See Source »

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