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Rarely have such searching, unsentimental questions and answers been put to a Broadway audience with such elegance and expertise. Sally's number Losing My Mind is the torch-singing peak of the show, but Sondheim's entire score is an incredible display of musical virtuosity. It is a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Seascape with Frieze of Girls | 4/12/1971 | See Source »

To start Electra-Bar, a human assistant taps the right combination of keys on a cash-register-like machine. Drawing from one or more of eleven bottles, the machine can mix and pour 36 different drinks. It will also dispense straight shots. Electra-Bar is designed to be both quicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Creeping Technology | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

Long after we leave, who will ever forget sitting on the verdent banks waiting for the crews to come into sight after the start, and always it's the Harvard oars reflecting sunlight that catch our eyes before all others. For it's the Cantabs who take the lead every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ben Beach Hail to Spring | 4/1/1971 | See Source »

The Tokyo Giants, winners of six straight Japanese championships, gave a preview of that prospect when they met the Baltimore Orioles, winners of last year's World Series, in an exhibition game at Miami. First Baseman Sadaharu Oh, the "Babe Ruth of Japan," who slugged 47 homma last season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Learning by Doing | 3/29/1971 | See Source »

Wherever he goes, Trillin resists the temptation to put his pulse on the finger of the nation. There is never any doubt about where his sympathies lie but, like his late colleague, The New Yorker's A.J. Liebling, Trillin exhibits great technical control and a quiet passion for fairness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Talk of the Nation | 3/22/1971 | See Source »

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