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...Jersey Central Power & Light's, at Oyster Creek, NJ. (500,000 kw.), a $90 million job bid on last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Atomic Energy: Turning the Corner | 7/12/1963 | See Source »

Tony has had better material, but he has never made more out of less. He skitters through his best scenes like a cat in pattens. He flicks a bad line away as a zillionaire might irritably flick a pearl out of an oyster. And when he does a slow burn you could fry an egg on his deadpan. Cary should approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Ambition Is Almost Enough | 2/8/1963 | See Source »

When an odd-looking craft called the H. S. Denison slipped down the ways into Long Island's Oyster Bay last week, it was a big event in the U.S. shipping world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Ferry on Skis | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

...taste bad. When I went to Central Asia with Justice Douglas in 1955, they brought in a goat, very dead, plucked out its eyes and served them to us. Justice Douglas turned to me and said. 'For the sake of America, Bob, make like it's an oyster.' So things have gone up since then." But it was on a sober note that he closed his speech. "My greatest impression of Japan is the great thirst for knowledge of the people. I'm amazed at how interested they are and how much they know about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: More Than a Brother | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

...Brigadier General William B. Rosson, the U.S. Army's guerrilla warfare expert, was brutally cropped to eliminate part of the general's brow, all of his hair and his left ear. Even the paper on which the newcomer was printed seemed whiter by several degrees than ordinary oyster-grey newsprint-as indeed it was. Thus last week, after a five-month gestation, was born the National Observer, the U.S.'s first serious try at a national newspaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Enter the Observer | 2/16/1962 | See Source »

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