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...aged trucking executive who, after five years as Ingrid's lover, prefers to spend his time with younger models. Ingrid has a lugubrious affair with Perkins, a spoiled young loafer, after he lures her to a concert with the mysteriously seductive incantation, "Aimez-vous Brahms?" There is a letup in the mooning when Perkins' exasperated boss asks him what the trouble is. "I just realized I've never been in love before," says the bemused one. "Well I have," says his employer, urging strongly that he get back to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Aimez-Vous Maxim's? | 6/30/1961 | See Source »

...there was no sign of a letup in activity-and each share traded meant commissions for somebody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: Computers to the Rescue | 3/17/1961 | See Source »

There was no letup in the outboard horsepower race. Outboard Marine's best-selling twins, Johnson and Evinrude, each unveiled a $908.50, 75-h.p. giant (up from 1958's 50 h.p. tops); Mercury showed off a 80 h.p. behemoth (price: $1,100 without propeller). While out-boarders felt that they were almost to the limit in horsepower for the hulls now in existence, Scott showed an experimental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Happy Sailing | 1/25/1960 | See Source »

AMERICAN Some Like It Hot. Director Billy Wilder's splendid parody of a Mack Sennett comedy, sustained without letup or letdown for two hours (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: BEST PICTURES OF 1959 | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...nation's worst polio season since Salk vaccine came into widespread use in 1955 shows no certain signs of letup. The figures for the week ending Sept. 19, according to the U.S. Public Health Service: 515 new cases, 326 of them paralytic, up from 510 cases (273 paralytic) the week before. Totals for the year to date: 5,520 cases, 3,400 of them paralytic, an increase of 83% from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Oct. 5, 1959 | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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