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...least, has declared himself out of the running. Said he: "I see no reason why Long should not continue as whip along with his other committee assignments. So far as the whip's office is concerned, I was lukewarm to it last year, and today I am absolutely frigid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Democrats: Long's Two Hats | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...promises to pay an extra dividend. To be kept in liquid form, it must be stored in refrigerated tanks at a temperature of - 423 °F. And since a plane moving at scramjet speeds will be seared by the heat of friction as it moves through the atmosphere, the frigid hydrogen will make an ideal coolant to be pumped through the skin of wings and fuselage before it is burned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Here Comes the Flying Stovepipe | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...when her fortunes ebbed-in one crisis she lost the use of her legs for some weeks. If she was a hysteric, Author Davison considers it highly unlikely that Mary was driven by lust to contrive the death of her husband. Instead, like most hysterics, Mary was probably sexually frigid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perennial Mystery | 11/26/1965 | See Source »

...small Italian town. In his present book he aims to tell the ironic, chilling story of a modern Diana who hunts a different species of bulls and bears. Author Vailland seems to think the lady is hot stuff, but most readers will find her just one more frigid bitch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Current & Various: Aug. 27, 1965 | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...Berne labels this game Frigid Woman, and warns against the conclusion that its outcome is all Mrs. Husband's fault. Chances are that her spouse deliberately, if unconsciously, chose just such an unobliging mate-"to minimize the danger," as Berne puts it, "of overtaxing his disturbed potency, which he can now blame on her." Another game is called Uproar, and while it is most commonly played by married couples anxious to avoid sexual intimacy, it is also played, on other occasions and for other reasons, by all mankind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Names of the Games | 8/6/1965 | See Source »

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