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...them, they sing back. Sometimes the same figure sings from three screens at once. Sometimes each screen is a different color. Sometimes all are black and white. Sometimes the negatives are reversed. Sometimes the images on the screen and the scenes onstage are split and scattered in a maze of mirrors till illusion and reality dissolve in shimmering similitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: A Trick But Not a Treat | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

Even as the 25,000 soldiers in the mammoth maze of barracks at California's Fort Ord were being trained for action against an enemy that might be as distant as Viet Nam, they were already engaged in mortal combat with an insidious and invisible invader right in their midst. Spinal meningitis has struck down 59 trainees this year and killed nine of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Recruits' Meningitis | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...huge new transportation system -outranking rails and airlines - is spreading across the U.S. in a spaghetti-like maze. Nearly a million miles long, it is almost completely invisible, carries no passengers, is deterred neither by rivers nor mountains. It is the nation's rapidly growing network of oil, gas and product pipelines, which now extends into all of the 49 continental states. Last week the biggest product pipeline of them all, built by Atlanta's Colonial Pipeline Co., slowly threaded its 36-inch ribbon of steel through the swamps and suburbs of New Jersey, two feet underground. Only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Transportation: The Invisible Network: A Revolution Underground | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...artists and architects, the playground is modeled after Copenhagen's. Kids can sail paper boats in shallow canals or swoop down a slippery slide into a sandbox, sit at tiny-tot tables and watch fireflies flit in the trees or play hide-and-seek in a maze with magic mirrors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Jul. 17, 1964 | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

TIVOLI GARDENS PLAYGROUND. Parents can park their progeny here, then, unfettered, enjoy the adult attractions. Created by 13 top Danish artists and architects, the playground has everything to charm a child: fireflies flitting in trees, tiny-tot tables and chairs, shallow canals with paper sailboats, a hide-and-seek maze with magic mirrors, an S-shaped slippery slide in a giant sandbox, and legetanter (play aunts) to share...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: Jul. 3, 1964 | 7/3/1964 | See Source »

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