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...million, makes most mainland terminals look shabby. An impressive low-cost housing program in San Juan has built 20,000 units. Private building has kept pace. Television antennas forest the roofs of the dwindling slums, and Governor Luis MunÕz Marin this week inaugurates an island-wide TV hookup. Wide boulevards and superhighways stretch out from the capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUERTO RICO: Island Workshop | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...will be laid at the base of his statue. From the University of Chicago some of Freud's most earnest disciples, among them his devoted follower and biographer, Britain's Dr. Ernest Jones.*will broadcast talks on the impact of Freud on psychiatry and medicine. A transatlantic hookup will join London and New York in a commemoration of Freud's impact on the arts, literature and science...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Explorer | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

...much-praised spinach is one of the worst offenders." ¶ In Morristown, N.J., the Morristown Memorial Hospital installed a new device, aimed at giving unwelcome visitors, e.g., children under 14, a chance to be seen by and chat with patients from a distance. The gimmick: a special TV hookup that employs existing TV sets in rooms, a camera and transmitter in the visitors' room, and an unused local commercial channel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Apr. 9, 1956 | 4/9/1956 | See Source »

...nationwide TV hookup, Eden tried to allay U.S. misgivings about the coming visit of Khrushchev and Bulganin to London. He said: "If you have confidence in yourself, if you believe in your own convictions, if you trust your own faith, you shouldn't be afraid to meet, to argue with others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tour of the Horizon | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

...idea comes to him as he chats with his "irrefragably feminine" mistress, TV Star Flaire Daire. It is a "big 1960" idea: voters love babies. After a bit of coaxing, Mrs. Adams agrees to spill some pseudo pregnancy news over Flaire's national TV hookup.* Unfortunately, a makeup artist named Jacques Mario Jean Petrovich goes into a dither over Mrs. Adams' "firm ample tummy [which] was shaped like the underside of a round 15-inch skillet." The pair are about to start cooking with gas when Blade starts playing Bogart with Jacques's face ("Slap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The 1960 Campaign | 2/13/1956 | See Source »

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