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...There are some things you can do," he said with a shrug, "and some things...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hughes' Labor Policy Welcomed By State AFL-CIO Convention | 10/6/1962 | See Source »

...other girls grin. "Really? And where do you meet?" "Oh," says Sophie grandly, "he's taken a flat for us." The enemy closes in. "Ha! You expect us to believe that? What's the address?" Sophie is superb. "Number Six, Place Violet," she announces with a shrug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Femmes Fatales | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...Horses. In fact, many professional military men-particularly in the Air Force-insist that specialized military requirements demand specialized space technology. The civilian officials and scientists of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration are shooting for the moon, and they tend to shrug off the military aspects of space. In contrast to the moonshooters, the Air Force foresees the need for a manned spacecraft, rugged and simple in design, that will be ready to go any time in any weather, reach orbit, maneuver in space, and return to earth as a matter of combat routine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Tone & Pace | 8/31/1962 | See Source »

...sank still lower to 129 to the dollar, while the foreign debt climbed to above $4 billion and gold and cash reserves in the treasury dwindled to a meager $170 million. And how does all this affect the run of the people? Said a Buenos Aires housewife with a shrug: "We don't worry any more. We live from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Americas: A State of Anarchy | 8/24/1962 | See Source »

...Force Academy Chapel: to some it has an awesome grace, to others a forbidding inhumanity (see color). This sort of controversy suits 42-year-old Architect Walter A. Netsch just fine. "I would rather people have some reaction to it," says he, "than have the cadets merely shrug and say, 'And that's the chapel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Spires That Soar | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

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