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...Frigid Visage. What happens next-whether Cuba will be blackballed from the OAS, or isolated by sanctions-Frondizi did not say. Yet even this very mild and tentative stand was apparently worrisome to Castro. He sent his Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Carlos Olivares Sánchez flying through Latin America in an attempt to forestall any action at all at Punta del Este...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: Dealing with | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...more than formerly thought), affects the surrounding oceans for hundreds or thousands of miles in all directions. For such reasons, Antarctica is a land of mystery and paradox-and a priceless laboratory for the world's scientists. Last week, as the southern summer moderated Antarctica's frigid climate, some 160 U.S. scientists and 100 scientists from other nations stepped up their activity in a friendly race to unlock the secrets of the white continent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mysteries of Antarctica | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

These impressions are intensified in the performances. Actress Page, an artist of unusual richness and motility, soon melts any sense of frigidity in the heroine with her glowing warmth and charm. And Actor Harvey, a player with the frigid fascination of a lizard, is clumsily miscast as the hotblooded hero. Instantly the spectator senses that this reptilian type could never possibly pair off with the warmhearted heroine. Instantly the love affair loses its credibility and the picture its suspense. Nevertheless, the film conspicuously possesses Playwright Williams' characteristic virtue: a pathetic-romantic atmosphere that lingers from scene to scene like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Small Thing but His Own | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...5TRATOSPHERIC FALLOUT. The third kind of fallout-stratospheric-will not disappear so quickly. Bombs of more than a megaton of power send a large part of their ballooning fireballs climbing high into the stratosphere where there are no falling raindrops or snowflakes. In the frigid stable stratosphere, extremely fine particles of radioactive matter from a big bomb may hang suspended for years-and the bigger the bomb, the more of its dangerous fallout goes into the stratosphere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fission & Fallout | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...lunches and explains: "I just order what I think would be a decent meal for three men, and when it's not enough, I order more." For working booze ("Whisky is for fun") Jackie absorbs six bottles a day of ruby-red Nuits-Saint-Georges-chilled, to the frigid disapproval of the Nuits-Saint-Georges bottlers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies Abroad: Magnificent Muttonhead | 5/5/1961 | See Source »

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