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...there is the problem of such next-generation weapons as the "neutron" bomb, now a drawing-board idea that testing might bring to reality. Compared with existing nuclear weapons, the neutron bomb would be cheaper and more adaptable to military purposes in the sense that its deadly "bullets" would shower specific areas without long-lasting contamination (TIME, Nov. 30, 1959). The first power to possess the neutron bomb will gain great military superiority. The Soviets, by their own admission, were experimenting with the neutron process as far back...
Today's brides have fewer engagement parties than in the past, are deluged instead by the 20th century equivalent of the dowry: showers of every variety, both practical and kooky, pour forth the loot. Karla Francisco, 21, a fourth-generation Californian who is marrying Thomas T. Hammond, 22, at her family's luxurious hacienda, had a relatively conventional kitchen shower. But other brides have an appliance shower, a crystal shower, a china shower, a paper shower, a lingerie shower, a bathroom shower, and "vice" shower (liquor, brandy, wine). In Detroit's suburban Bloomfield Hills, Patti Bugas...
...when brisk, jet-borne academic types whisk in and out of Washington, the legendary absent-minded professor is an anachronism. But New York University Philosopher Sidney Hook still conforms to that older, homelier image; he has been known to enter the shower wearing pajamas, and he once absently rejected the Oedipus Complex as a tool of philosophy by exclaiming: "I learned that stuff at my mother's knee...
...oddball craft that fluttered over Otay Mesa near San Diego last week looked like a refugee from a museum of aviation antiques. But the ungainly contraption was more modern than that. Its triangular nylon wing, transparent and flexible as a shower curtain (see cut), was the Ryan Aeronautical Co.'s latest attempt to solve some of the problems of space-age flight...
Shepard himself had already put in even longer hours of preparation. That morning, he had been awakened at i a.m. After a shower and shave he had break fast: orange juice, eggs, tea and a y-oz. filet mignon wrapped in bacon was characteristic of the substantial but lowresidue diet that astronauts stick to when about to make a flight. After eating, Shepard got an elaborate physical examination. Everything was normal; so he moved to the suiting room to get into his space gear...