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Apples & Pears. Rarely has good news been presented with more furrowed brows. Big Steel's Blough astutely cautioned that high second-quarter earnings reflected "an unusually high demand artificially stimulated by our customers' fear of a steel strike." Comparing current earnings with profits in recession 1958, said Bethlehem...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Embarrassment of Riches | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

In the warmth of spring, the Mercedes, BMWs and Opels streaming along the Autobahnen have to dodge ever more midget cars of workers, piled high with blanket rolls and suitcases, headed for weekend campsites along the Rhine. The West German Hausfrau roams through gleaming supermarkets to choose such exotic imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Spreading the Wealth | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

Designed in the pioneering 1920s by France's famed Le Corbusier, who considered it his finest "machine for living,'' it is raised on pilotis (stilts), has gently inclined ramps leading from the ground to the sun deck. Interior space is so arranged that sunlight floods the open...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stompin' on the Savoye | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

Boling planned the flight for nine months, spent part of his time checking charts and part learning to stay awake 48 hours at a stretch. His 250-h.p. plane was fitted with auxiliary wingtip tanks to provide an extra 124 gal. of gas (he consumed all but eleven), and with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR AGE: Busman's Holiday | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

It was, naturally, the season for strange visions-and Sputniks 1 and 11 made them more natural. From virtually every region in the U.S. last week poured frantic reports of U.F.O.s-unidentified flying objects. This time, as the U.S. Air Defense Command tabulated reports (no fewer than 128), the sightings from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Dinner Time | 11/18/1957 | See Source »

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