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...Champagnat has a growing affection for his busy oil bugs which he claims are much faster workers than steen A 1,000-lb. steer that is properly fed synthesizes 1 lb. of protein in 24 hours. In the same period 1,000 Ibs. of oil bugs grazing on petroleum gam 5,000 Ibs., of which 2,500 Ibs. are edible protein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microbiology: The Oil Eaters | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...scare the President into taking greater security precautions. But Tixier was made to look so ridiculous in trying to prove the charge that he dropped this strategy. Even Tixier's defense witnesses (though mostly staunch advocates of Algerie francaise) had little sympathy for the five. Snapped General Fernand Gam-biez: "It is because of maneuvers of men like them that Algerie francaise was lost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Five Who Failed | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...Lover is just a stock-situation comedy, but the situation has been worked out as elegantly as a chess problem: opening gam bit, queen's sacrifice, knight rooked, mate. The same game, more or less, was played in Pillow Talk, an amusing and lucrative farce turned out in 1959 by the same scriptwriter, Stanley Shapiro, a onetime gag writer for Fred Allen who is now one of the sharpest word boys in the movie business. But this time the interiors are even more giltily decorative, the fashions more spectacularly inconsequintial, the colors more hormone-creamy, the lines more jerky...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Pillow Replumped | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...cinema set's interminable State of Their Union messages were as bearish as ever. Out of the Manhattan apartment he shared with Actress Rita Gam, 33, stormed Second Husband (and Viking Press President) Thomas Guinzburg, 35-Miss Gam sighed that the trouble "all seemed to date from the time Tom stopped smoking," hoped that the separation would be "only temporary." At the same time, evergreen Joan Bennett, 51, had gotten so used to her longtime on-and-off separation from Producer Walter Wanger, 67, that she decided to file for divorce. "It will all be very agreeable." said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 26, 1962 | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...citizens when he returns with his aging Hollywood mistress to the town where he once "ruined" an innocent young girl (Williams condensed and somewhat defeathered his Sweet Bird for Latin American audiences). After a generally tepid reception in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the group (which was headed by Rita Gam, Ben Piazza, Viveca Lindfors and Betty Field-all competent performers) moved on up to Rio and discovered to a fare-thee-well that there is no good will in bad Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: This Rotted World | 9/1/1961 | See Source »

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