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Poor girl. She would like to pass as all grown up, but when she was born, on May 9, 1946, her father and his monocled friend were wisecracking at the top of the air waves, and news of her arrival splashed over the tabs. Now her age can be looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 10, 1964 | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

> Turtle, Lockheed's odd-looking entry, is lens-shaped to allow it to scoot along the bottom like a flounder. After experiments with a small, self-propelled model, Designer Willy Fiedler decided that the lenticular shape, made of two strong metal saucers joined at their edges, is the best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oceanography: Deep-Down Submarines | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

From Eye to Eye. The most clear-cut and comprehensible autoimmune diseases form a small, exceptional group. Thousands of the body's countless proteins circulate in the blood or are washed by it, but a few are "sequestered": the fluid in the eye's lens, sperm secreted in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immunology: How Man Becomes Allergic To Parts of Himself | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

That this is actually an autoimmune reaction, with antibody circulating in the blood, is shown by the fact that if only one eye is injured, the antibody gets to the other eye and attacks the proteins in its lens. Thus injury to one eye may lead to blindness in both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Immunology: How Man Becomes Allergic To Parts of Himself | 5/1/1964 | See Source »

Wrong-Way Runaway. Rarely, in fact, have Ford and its 167,000 employees been so excited about a new model-and the effect it will have on competition. Into Iacocca's office one day recently strolled Don Frey, triumphantly carrying a grainy photographic print of a competitor's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Ford's Young One | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

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