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With this precision, Sailer combines not only strength and prime condition, but an astonishing ability to pick the fastest (not always the shortest) route to the finish line. Sailer's word for his technique is Tuschen, a Kitzbühel slang term that may derive from the word for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Tuschen | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

At home in tomorrow . . . Mallory serves the nation's growth industries with precision products and broad experience in the fields of electronics, electrochemistry and specialized metallurgy.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music, Feb. 4, 1957 | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

Near the base of the stratosphere, 35,000 to 40,000 ft. above the earth, the jet stream offers free west-east transportation to airplanes that can find it and stay in it. It is a hard trick to do, but last week a B-47 bomber stayed in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: How to Ride the Jet Stream | 2/4/1957 | See Source »

He was often criticized for the rigidity and the rapidity of his tempos, but he scorned increasingly throughout his life the exaggeratedly retarded tempos of more sentimental schools of conducting; it was in the precision and incisiveness of the rhythm that he found his, and the composer's, power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Maestro | 1/28/1957 | See Source »

Wilkie Collins is recognized today as one of the most influential and readable of Victorian novelists. In an age when the three-volume serialized novel offered mostly narrative sprawl and chaos, Collins fashioned plot lines of watchwork precision for 36 separate books, including his masterpieces, The Moonstone and The Woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Weird Wilkie | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

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