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Engineers are probably more grandiose in their dreams than most major poets or opium smokers. Since that ambitious and ill-fated building project, the Tower of Babel, they have thought up endless projects to improve the universe, and an astonishing number of them have become reality, from the pyramids to Grand Coulee Dam. From those that have not yet come true, popular-science Writer Willy Ley has compiled a new book, Engineers' Dreams (Viking; $3.50). In it, he tells some of the projects modern engineers might accomplish-if they could get rid of political, social and economic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Slide-Rule Dreams | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

Tightening up his too-late theme, Author Lewis turns the vise of his plot until poor Crane is crushed. Trouble begins with some petty thieving of company lumber. Then a company truck is am bushed and the driver killed. The major investigates for Crane, tangles with the local opium-smuggling ring and is blown up with a hand grenade. In the meantime, Crane receives more bad news: the com pany's teak contract has not been renewed; everyone must go home in 21 months. Home for Crane means a dreary London suburb arid a nagging, neurotic wife. Rather than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Anna Doesn't Live Here | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

...else in the world do museums attract such crowds. Each day at the Metropolitan I watched the milling crowd, a young and athletic crowd that took pleasure in being there . . . What did they seek? . . . Simply the past of the whole universe. [But] in America the museum is not an opium one inhales to rediscover lost paradises . . . Confronted by admired works of art, [Americans] do not have that humble reaction that, too often in Europe, leaves one with the conviction that one was born too late and can never equal them. In America, when one goes to a museum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: With Pride Intact | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...sensational charge in his monthly magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman nobleman who ran a narcotics ring. Wilma, said Attualita, apparently passed out from too much opium and was thrown on the beach by her companion and left to drown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Montesi Affair | 3/22/1954 | See Source »

...Italy's Foreign Minister, the head of a great chemical trust, and many other big names. Muto named one prominent Roman, the wealthy, white-haired Marchese Ugo Montagna di San Bartolomeo, as the leader of an international dope-smuggling ring who lured young girls to opium-drenched downfalls. When reporters reached the Milanese attorney's daughter, she calmly admitted that she had indeed once been the marchese's mistress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How Did Wilma Die? | 2/15/1954 | See Source »

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