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Friendly Gesture. As Schuman's shaky government floundered, René Pleven, unofficial leader of the U.D.S.R., stepped up with a life preserver-with a long string to it. Pleven's proposition: if Schuman would promise to hold early elections (which the Gaullists would probably win), then the Gaullist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Painless Transition? | 3/22/1948 | See Source »

Water-skiing entails little expense and far fewer fractures than its snowy sister sport. All you need is a speedboat, a quiet lagoon, several hundred feet of light rope, and, above all, a life preserver to keep you afloat.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Too Cold? Ankles Broken? Try Water Skiing Next Time | 1/22/1948 | See Source »

That night-July 4- was no night for Sunday seamen. The schooner Morning Star radioed to shore: "Heavy swells with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Logarithm Victory | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

Last Straw. In Boonville, Mo., Herman Boggs spotted a life preserver in the river, went after it, drowned.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Dentists suspect that the county's main tooth preserver is fluorine. Everywhere surveys have been made, the quality of teeth has been found to vary with the amount of fluorine in the local water supply: too little fluorine-much dental decay; too much fluorine-hard, but mottled, teeth (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Essence of Deaf Smith | 6/18/1945 | See Source »

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