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...Leftfielder Jim Lemon. 31, a long and lean slugger (6 ft. 4 in.. 205 Ibs.) who finally shortened his gargantuan batting stride, is tied for fourth in homers (21), stands fifth in runs batted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Fireworks Factory | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...home season. Because of the difficulty of shifting the Bolshoi's ponderous sets on the Met's antiquated stage, the company abandoned the idea of a repertory run. Its offering to the glittering opening-night crowd and for the next four performances: Sergei Prokofiev's gargantuan Romeo and Juliet, stretching on for 3½-hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bolshoi at the Met | 4/27/1959 | See Source »

Varsity soccer coach Bruce Munro has the gargantuan job this season of building a soccer team out of an ailing goalie, two accident-prone fullbacks, an inexperienced and injury-riddled halfback line, and a forward line which has yet to prove itself as a real scoring threat...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Injuries Cloud Soccer Team Predictions; Coach Munro Must Rebuild 'Dark Horse' | 9/24/1958 | See Source »

Probing the Deeps. Hidden from the sun, the black bottom is an unimaginably terrifying land of ancient mountain ranges and valleys, somnolent volcanoes, Gargantuan canyons, bottomless chasms (see map)-a land filled with hiding places for a future generation of deeper-diving submarines. Knowledge of this topography as well as of the mysterious currents that flow there will decide the future's underwater wars. Though the seas cover 70% of the earth's surface, oceanographers have carefully mapped only about a third of the world's ocean floor. The Russians have gone full steam on oceanography, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Goblin Killers | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...party was given in 1908, in honor of elderly Primitivist Painter Henri Rousseau, by a youthful admirer named Pablo Picasso, who decorated his Montmartre studio with Chinese lanterns and ordered in a "gargantuan supply of wine.'' When the party ended and the sun was rising, Rousseau had long since left his seat of honor (a chair on a crate) and gone home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unstrung Quartet | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

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