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...Seep-Out. Most experts agree that syndet-spiked drinking water so far offers no serious threat to health. Government standards hold that drinking water may contain a half-part of detergent sudsing agent to a million parts of water, but this is based on the esthetic qualities of taste and foaminess rather than on toxicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Home: Down the Drain | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

Another patient, a ball-turret gunner, was trapped in the turret after his plane was shot up. Several of his bones were broken. Highly flammable oil began to seep into the turret. The boy screamed until the oil reached his lower lip. When the pilot ditched the plane, the ball turret was knocked off, the gunner somehow survived, but his mind was gone. Receiving these cases back in Ward 7, generally knowing little more about them than their names, ranks and serial numbers, Captain Newman approaches them with godly insight, and somehow Rosten manages to suggest with plausibility that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skits & Schizophrenia | 1/26/1962 | See Source »

...used a bold palette, delighting in the clash of colors. Gradually, the palette cooled into chilly blues and greys, then faded almost to white. Only recently has the color begun to seep back again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Painter of Space | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...hardrock who shows up to take over his neighborhood gang after 25 years of mysterious absence, will never do as well. Deep down, Deep is mushy. He sticks to one crazy beautiful 6-ft.-tall dame, and all he does is slap her once across, watching "the red seep back into her face." Could any fan show his face at the De Sade A.C. carrying a book this mild...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Never Come Back | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...wives and widows of the men of the RB-47 have abided by the department's request to keep quiet and wait. But waiting is difficult for young wives, and they can find small comfort in the driblets of letters that manage to seep through the Communist censorship. Among the personal messages the prisoners were permitted to write to their families, a few notes gave an inkling, especially as the Christmas season approached, of their solitary anguish. "I can't believe that nothing is happening," wrote Bruce Olmstead, "and I do my best to make it from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Forgotten Men | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

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