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Last week Andrew Monahan, marketing consultant for Accuracy Inc.. stood up before a Boston meeting of the American Marketing Association and told the whole story: the MOLE was an elaborate hoax. Accuracy Inc. is a small firm that manufactures precision potentiometers-small electrical measuring devices (known in the trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Megasecret MOLE | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

The success of the show is three-pronged: a matter of madness, precision and charm. The madness is a sort of scuffled Hellzapoppin, of light jolts and quick surprises. The audience seldom has a sense of what is coming and may quite literally be hit with it. The evening offers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Partly because much of it moves to rhythmically gay and tinny music, La Plume has a sort of dreamlike clockwork precision, a sense of Jacques being nimble, Jacques being quick. But it is something very like charm that most enhances what is good in the show and cushions what is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Nov. 24, 1958 | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Concrete & Paper Fans. Minoru Yamasaki's $1,172,000 conference building at Wayne University in Detroit is almost too pretty to be great. But it does promise well for the 60 acres of new campus construction that Wayne and Yamasaki hope to add. A Seattle-born Nisei, Yamasaki is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Building for Learning | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

Throughout the entire first half, the Crimson attack was a delight to watch. The forwards passed and shot excellently as they kept up a withering attack on the Bruin goal. Crimson coach Bruce Munro lauded the team after the game, saying, "I haven't seen such precision bombing since I...

Author: By James W. B. benkard, | Title: Varsity Soccer Team Beats Brown, 5-2, Maintains Second Place in Ivy League | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

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