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>The Soviet Union's stranglehold on world sky-diving records slipped slightly when a four-man U.S. team, bailing out near Chandler, Ariz., broke Soviet marks for day and night group-precision jumping. In daylight, the U.S. parachutists landed an average of 13 ft. 7 in. from a target...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard: Dec. 15, 1961 | 12/15/1961 | See Source »

BIRGIT NILSSON, 43, is the big Wagnerian soprano the Met started searching for as soon as Kirsten Flagstad retired. Nilsson displayed her vibrant, flashing voice for the first time at the Met two years ago in a performance of Tristan und Isolde. She has triumphed in most of the Wagnerian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Supreme Sopranos | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

Carter has been bowling with just such effortless precision ever since he quit pro baseball in 1948-he was a Class-D farmhand for the old Philadelphia Athletics-to play the alleys seriously. Competing in a game that has more active competitors (28 million) than any other in the U.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Mr. Bowling | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

Three in One. In building Apollo, North American takes on one of the most monumental precision jobs in industrial history. As now conceived, the spacecraft will actually be three units joined together. The forward unit-the command center-will house the three-man crew. The middle unit will be the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aerospace: Strength Through Change | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

One, Two, Three (Mirisch; United Artists) is a yell-mell, hard-sell, Sennett-with-a-sound-track satire of iron curtains and color lines, of people's demockeracy, Coca-Colonization, peaceful noexistence, and the Deep Southern concept that all facilities are created separate but equal. What's more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: BeWildered Berlin | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

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