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...blown many joints of pot. We were going to fall up to Marco's room, the young man in the sports shirt burbled assiduously. We went downstairs and out, out into the fantastic American night. The city was a crazy mesh of iron rectangle buildings and neon gargoyles zipping orange in the black air. The four of us flew on the two big Harleys through the wild night streets up to Marco's pad, all under the unimaginable American...

Author: By David M. Farquhar, | Title: Writing Courses at Harvard | 11/26/1958 | See Source »

Paper Plan. Behlen's big break came in 1947, when he designed a frameless corn crib made of corrugated wire mesh. Farmers jumped at it because it was so simple to assemble. Behlen borrowed from the RFC to pay for a bigger plant, netted $305,000 that year and paid off the loan in six months. Then the corrugating idea really blossomed. One day he devised a new way of double corrugation by folding a piece of stationery in an unusual pyramidal form. It was so much stronger that he decided to use the principle for building. Panels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Corn-Belt Edison | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...nothing but a thin plastic sheet coated with cesium or some other material that gives off electrons when struck by light. On earth these electrons would get nowhere; they would be captured immediately by atmospheric atoms. On the airless moon the electrons could be collected by a wire mesh. Flowing out of the mesh, they would form a direct electric current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lunar Electron Farm | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Last week the leaders of seven captive East European countries were summoned to the Kremlin for a big socialist camp meeting. In a general tightening-up to mesh satellite economies into Russia's forthcoming revised seven-year plan. Eastern European countries were directed to drop pet national industrial projects and produce what they can produce best. For the first time Soviet-bloc economic integration was extended to Communist Asia (China, North Korea, North Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Groping Between | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

Apart from Hagoth, Maoris and Mormons seem to mesh because both once practiced plural marriage. Even more important, white Mormons have carefully learned the Maori language, fostered their art and culture. New Zealand's National Council of Churches has flatly rejected the Mormons as members: "Their conception of God is anthropomorphic. To them he is really a glorified man." But New Zealand's Anglicans at least were ready to take a lesson from how the Mormons are "sheep stealing" among the Maoris. Questioning whether they have really made Maoris feel at home in their churches, the Anglicans were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Hagoth's Children | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

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