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...through the water as if a shark were snapping at his toes, set a new Olympic record in the 400-meter freestyle, helped his teammates set a world record as they took the 800-meter relay, then came back to whip New York's George Breen in the gut-wrenching 1,500-meter grind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: End of the Affair | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

When a man has butterflies in his stomach, how fast are their wingbeats? Does anger or anxiety have a greater effect on stomach contractions? Medical researchers trying to answer these questions have been hampered by difficulty in observing what goes on inside the gut. Last week a team of U.C.L.A. psychologists studying automatic nervous reactions announced a compact solution to the problem: a plastic-coated magnet no bigger than a small medicine capsule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Magnet in the Stomach | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Lionel White, tells the familiar story of a stickup. Led by an ex-convict (Sterling Hayden), six men put the heist on a race track, but even though the tote is $2,000,000, the script fixes things so that crime does not pay. Nevertheless, the plot produces a gut-clenching suspense and plenty of surprises -pulled out of the hat alive and kicking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 4, 1956 | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

Some students industriously select the University's most esoteric-sounding courses to impress their friends and the folks back home. The more realistic usually seek a gut for a fourth course. The green book is full of courses; so, to please both these elements, the CRIMSON takes another plunge into it, this time to look for interesting Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday courses without burdensome prerequisites...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Need a Course: II | 2/2/1956 | See Source »

...appear only after making certain that Knight had already accepted an invitation from San Francisco. Sniggered a committee member: "When 'Goodie' found out that the San Francisco dinner wasn't going to be on television and the Los Angeles one was, he almost busted a gut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Heart Is So Full | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

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