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...good: the 20,000 spring-vacationing collegians who began taking over the town two weekends ago behaved in the same sunstruck, beer-propelled way as have their predecessors for the last 20 years. That is, they grilled themselves medium-rare all day, beach-boozed all night, and blew the foam off the early hours by decanting sand sharks and alligators into local swimming pools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Beer & the Beach | 4/13/1959 | See Source »

...Morningside; Columbia) is one of the best monster pictures ever made for children. In fact, it is so horrifyingly good that some parents may want to scout it before letting their children see it. A new process called Dynamation, in which foam-rubber puppets are filmed in relation to live figures, has produced some chillingly realistic visions of monstrosity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 26, 1959 | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...thin plastic coated with shiny aluminum. If the satellite is spinning, the sail would spread itself by centrifugal force. Another method would be to construct a sail with inflatable tubes connected by fragile membranes on the model of an insect's wing. At the proper moment, plastic foam would be injected into the hollow tubes, distending them and spreading the sail. Later, the foam would harden to act as supporting ribs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Trade Wind in Space | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...general, the foods which trundle through the underground passages from the Central Kitchen are improved over last year. Notable is the veal cutlet which no longer consists of foam rubber between veneers of conglomerated bread crumbs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Topping Chopping | 10/17/1958 | See Source »

...with the waves of the South Pacific, as it had for four months past. The deck was awash in 3 ft. of water; to the roof of the deckhouse there clung five sick and starving men, Eric de Bisschop and his four-man crew. Ahead of them lay the foam-edged sickle of the reef of Rakahanga in the northern Cook Islands. They had already missed landfalls at the Tuamotus, at Starbuck and Penrhyn Islands. There was no option but to shoot the reef at Rakahanga in the hope of reaching the calm lagoon and the fresh water and food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH PACIFIC: The Reef at Rakahanga | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

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