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...pump is an improved model of the device developed in 1966 by Kantrowitz and his brother Arthur, a physicist. Made of silicone rubber and Dacron, the booster is deceptively simple in construction. Six inches long and shaped like a cigar, it consists of two tubes, a balloon-like outer bladder surrounding a narrow tube, with an air hose that leads from the outer tube to a helium-powered driving unit and compressed air tank outside the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Assist for an Ailing Heart | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

...caught dead without their own favorite brand of dart. The standard board, favored by USDA and a fixture in most English pubs, is made of tightly packed sisal fiber and marked off in 20 pieshaped sections with a score value of from 1 to 20, and inner and outer bull's-eyes worth 50 and 25 points respectively.* Some pubs, like Washington's Wakefields, have as many as five boards permanently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Darts Away | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

...Though there are many ways to keep score, the most widely used is with the game 301. Each player starts with this total, then subtracts the value of his three-dart rounds. The winner must go out on a double (zipping a dart into the tiny double outer ring) worth the exact number of points remaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Darts Away | 7/26/1971 | See Source »

...Louvre, everyone knows, is the most famous museum in Paris. But which is the least famous? Until lately, a good candidate for the laurels of obscurity was the Musée Marmottan, a two-story mansion in the outer regions of the 16th Arrondissement near the Bois de Boulogne. From its opening in 1934, the place attracted about 30 visitors a month to admire a lugubrious clutter of porcelain, stained glass and Napoleonic furniture. Guidebooks ignored the Musée Marmottan. Even its hours were absurd: two afternoons a week, except during the tourist-laden summer, when the museum perversely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Prophet of Light | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...steak sent up to her room, and after she put it away she bounced up and taught a visitor how to do the shuffle and the shim-sham. Soon she was stomping to the music of an imaginary combo and shaking it up like the great little putter-outer she has always been. "Ta-daaaaa!" she yelled as she reached the Durante closer, her arms opened wide and her green eyes glittering happily through her long soft strawberry locks. Quit show business? Come off it! Just watch her face light up when somebody discusses her recent appearance at the Teamsters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Ordeal of Ann-Margret | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

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