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motor sailers adorned with bunnies in bikinis and old salts in yachting caps. Picnic baskets were broken out, and beer cans began bobbing gently in the glassy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Grim Duel at Newport | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

...they explain these maneuvers, NASA enthusiasts make the trip sound as simple as a Sunday picnic, but no one actually believes that the voyage will be safe or easy. All sorts of unexpected obstacles may force changes of plan. No one knows, for instance, whether human bodies can stand a full week exposed to zero gravity. If they cannot, some sort of substitute gravity will have to be supplied by spinning the spacecraft−a stunt that will call for radically new apparatus. Another unknown is the lunar surface; no one is sure at present just how hostile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Reaching for the Moon | 8/10/1962 | See Source »

Beckley, W. Va., Grandview Amphitheater: Honey in the Rock, an alfresco Civil War drama by Kermit Hunter; a thousand thrills plus picnic facilities promised by the management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema, Television, Theater, Books: Aug. 3, 1962 | 8/3/1962 | See Source »

...entered into the public domain. Since 1958, the American Thermos Products Co. of Norwich, Conn., had been contesting the use of the word "thermos" by a competitor, Aladdin Industries Inc., of Nashville, Tenn. Ruling that American Thermos no longer held exclusive rights to the name of the jug no picnic can do without, the judge of the U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., pointed out that "thermos" had become generic largely through the efforts of the manufacturer himself over a period of many years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Marketplace: That Which We Call a Rose | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

Thunderous Picnic. The death ended a literary vendetta as implacable as any feud in the Kentucky hills. Tall, handsome Stanhope and rude, arrogant Curtal spent a lifetime competing for women, fame, friends, disciples and the minds of men. Atheist, lecher and revolutionary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mandarin & Mucker | 6/15/1962 | See Source »

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