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...Spanish hill called Cerro de Los Angeles. At last the Constellation seemed to hover for a moment over the runway; then it touched and skidded, screaming and careening, while a U.S. Air Force crash truck sped alongside ready to spray it with a flame-extinguishing foam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Promise | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

...Natural Seven (Victor LP). A pickup septet, led by Tenorman Al Cohn, plays jazz â la Count Basic in his Kansas City heyday. The music bounces on foam rubber rather than crepe shoes, is muffled rather than raucous, but includes some delightfully piquant ensemble riffs under the trumpet of Joe Newman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Jazz Records | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

...Baptist, white with foam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Catholic, Protestant & Free | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...dead silence, a fire crew inched toward the still monster to douse its blackened rocket chambers with a blanket of foam. The sled's tail flared into a puff of flame, like a last gesture of defiance, and the test run was over. A quick check of the chronographs showed that Sonic Wind No. 2 had hit 995 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Fastest Man on Earth | 9/12/1955 | See Source »

...Corp. put on display in its main Manhattan showroom three custom-made dream cars (Falcon, Flight Sweep I and II), fitted out with such futurisms as roofed headlights, curved window glass, external dual exhausts, control panel on a pedestal sandwiched between bucket seats, padded doors, and carpets fused over foam rubber. None of the supercars is a production prototype: Chrysler hopes to whet appetites for its 1956 cars and, by eavesdropping on car fans, to pick out salable features for its 1957 and 1958 models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

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