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...Dearborn headquarters, with his wife Margaret and three children, because it is a university town. He frequently test-drives a competitor's car on his commute to Ann Arbor. Recently, in a competing car, he was once more reminded of quality. The car stalled in a rainstorm. It took McNamara, soaking wet, three hitchhikes to get home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Ford's Fastest Whiz Kid | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...York, insiders report that Pat Nixon phoned the White House during a Washington rainstorm and asked: "Mamie, are you sure the windows are closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Pat, Pop & Bingo | 11/7/1960 | See Source »

...family." Davis ensured that he would be detached both physically and emotionally from the backyard by setting his retreat on steel posts so that it seems to float above the pond. The 2¼-inch-thick vaulted concrete roof was meant to be both elegant and playful. During a rainstorm the extended roof-beam "gargoyle" rainspouts will channel water into the pool in a miniature cascade that any 18th century fancier of gazebos or octagonal summerhouses would have applauded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: New Southern Comfort | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...ocean-going yacht Caleb (Seagull), the two Presidents and their wives rang in the New Year in memorable fashion. Dancers trampled the palace lawn with polkas and Partisan Kolo. At midnight Tito and Sukarno embraced and kissed. At dawn the revelers were dancing in their shirtsleeves. A rainstorm broke; they moved inside. Not until 7 a.m. did the party break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTHEAST ASIA: Tito's Travels | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...days, after enduring near-100° temperatures and a rainstorm that drenched him to the skin, Photographer Wayman's patience was rewarded, and his color film caught the full flight, from start to finish, of the second test flight of the U.S.'s intercontinental ballistics missile, the Atlas. Hours later, the film was on its way to New York for processing, and the following day the pictures were in Chicago being engraved and printed. This week, less than seven days after the event, they appear in TIME, the first color photographs of the Atlas in flight. See NATIONAL...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

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