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...along with more than 200 newsmen, gathered around in agonized vigil, the rescue team's drill bit deeper toward Fellin and Throne. With every turn of that drill the danger increased that the rescue efforts would cave in what remained of the roof of that underground, pick-hewn grotto in which Fellin, Throne and, surely not too many feet away, Lou Bova, had been trapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pennsylvania: Start of a Legend? | 9/6/1963 | See Source »

Paul VI began following the path blazed by John with his very first actions as Pope. He renamed John's old friend Amleto Cicognani as the Vatican's Secretary of State, and Monsignor Angelo Dell'Acqua as Substitute Secretary. The new Pope descended to the grotto beneath St. Peter's to pray by the side of his predecessor's tomb. And in the spirit of John's footloose ways, Paul VI left the Vatican the day after his election-to visit Spain's ailing primate, Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Papacy: The Path to Follow | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

...George C. Scott as Shylock and a smoothly urbane Portia by Nan Martin, the production was not up to the usual Papp standard. But 200 critics and 100,000 rabbis could not shake Joe Papp out of his fortress now. His new amphitheater is handsomely set in a rocky grotto at the edge of a lake, and equipped with a mobile stage that can swiftly and silently be changed to suggest anything from a closeted interior to "another part of the forest." It is above all solidly and massively there. New Yorkers will be watching free, and often exceptional, productions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: New Fortress | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

...fair's theme show, sponsored by the State of Washington, is its most sophisticated exhibit. A sort of Jean Cocteau fun house, it is a floating grotto of aluminum cubes that gives visitors a 20-minute visit to "a world already possible but not yet here." In a huge plastic sphere called a Bubblelator, 100 visitors at a time are lifted into the cubistic caverns above, there to shuffle through a labyrinth of 3,600 aluminum cubes, and be exposed by light, sound projection and three-dimensional devices to a dreamworld tunnel of love that involves them "emotionally with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fairs: Go West, Everybody | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

...Reinhold Delzer, Bismarck, N. Dak., contractor, who rescued the 20-rank Wurlitzer from the demolished Radio City Theater in Minneapolis. Delzer has carved out a grotto for his prize beneath his home after getting special permission from a nonplussed Bismarck city commission to build organ chambers tangent to a city right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Bigger Than Stereo | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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