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...lamps are set pointing upward at angles that mark out the glide path. When the pilot makes the proper approach, he sees on each side of the runway two bars of lights. The near group is white, the far group red (see diagram). As long as they stay that way, he is doing all right. But if the white lights turn pink or red, he is approaching too low. If the red lights turn pink or white, he is too high. He has plenty of time to get in the slot. Even with brilliant sunlight competing with the lights, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lights for the Slot | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...Happened in Broad Daylight. A slick but effective suspense film written by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt (reversing the usual process, he drew his novel The Pledge from the script) in which a psychopath-brilliantly acted by Gert Frobe-and a police inspector glide through frightening shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 21, 1960 | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...Happened in Broad Daylight. A slick but effective suspense film written by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt (reversing the usual process, he drew his novel The Pledge from the script), in which a psychopath, brilliantly acted by Gert Frobe, and a police inspector glide through frightening shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: CINEMA | 11/14/1960 | See Source »

...will be studied by McDonnell Aircraft Corp. under government contract. Vehicle, an enlarged ICBM nose cone with fins, directed by an inertial guidance system, would reenter the earth's atmosphere in glide, travel 75 miles above the earth for long distance until it gradually drops down to be recovered. If Pentagon approves study, device would be built in about two years at an estimated cost of $75-$100 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Jul. 4, 1960 | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...figures with a warmth of tone, a turbulence, and a gusto that is the envy of every other saxman in the business. In their most popular number-This Here, by Pianist Bobby Timmons-the quintet pours cool brass over the driving beat in long, looping lines that seem to glide through the roof and into the night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cannonball | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

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