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...tight-fitting pressure suit made of elastic cotton-rayon knit material has been developed at Duke University for victims of low blood pressure who are in danger of keeling over when they get out of bed or stand up. It keeps blood from pooling in the abdomen and legs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

Loose T-shirts can be worn with shorts and pedal pushers and are big news fashion-wise for beachwear when worn over swimsuits. Individual details on T-shirts include bloused cut, rib knit boarders, slashed sides, or sailor collars...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: When the Living Is Easy | 5/4/1956 | See Source »

...bottom. On summer days the family often picnicked on the beach, where father Hall had built a brick oven for feasts of winkles and horseshoe crabs. There were few luxuries, and the Hall boys chored around the neighborhood for spending money, but it was a happy, close-knit life. His mother taught Len how to handle a gun (he is still a skilled trap-shooter), and tutored him in his studies so expertly that he skipped to the third grade a month after he entered school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: The Mahout from Oyster Bay | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

...been invited to participate. The Thais' idea was to show how fast SEATO power could come to the aid of Bangkok, in a demonstration that SEATO is no "paper tiger." The U.S. Navy called it "Operation Firm Link" and declared it was intended to "signify the close-knit ties among the SEATO nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SEATO: Creaky Tiger | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...defiance of the British rule. "We shall fight the White Paper as if there were no war, and the war as if there were no White Paper," he said. The illegal immigration, the organization of which he left as always to enthusiastic young followers, helped build a solid, well-knit and trained community to fight for the state after World War II. When Ben-Gurion proclaimed Israel's independence in 1918 (against the advice of U.S. Secretary of State George...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Prophet with a Gun | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

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