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When Zarchin finally got through to Ben-Gurion, he found an eager supporter. After Israeli engineers had sniffed at his scheme, Zarchin herded them to a nearby ice factory, froze and melted some sea water, and passed it around. The engineers took one sip, then let loose a delighted whoop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Salt Water Into Fresh | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...WINE SALES are expected to increase 10% in 1956, reach an alltime peak of $660 million (v. $260 million in 1940), though the industry reports that only one out of three Americans ever takes a sip of wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Aug. 20, 1956 | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

...20th century's beneficiaries of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in "Virtue, Liberty and Independence" might even share this sentiment. A sip of their chlorine-loaded tap water and they understand why Fields shunned the liquid all his life; a trip downtown and they know why he hated the city's narrow, crosshatched streets. A baseball park should be a place to get away from all this, but these days even a trip to Connie Mack Stadium is seldom a pleasure. The Philadelphia Phillies, now the only major-league team in town, are stumbling through their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Whole Story of Pitching | 5/28/1956 | See Source »

...would show a sugar daddy signing a fat check for his girl friend. Pressagent Williamson (whose clients have included Gladys Swarthout, Ezio Pinza, Helen Traubel) persuaded Austrian-born Artist Susan Perl to put her ideas on paper, found a California manufacturer to print the cartoons on a set of "sip 'n snack" paper napkins. Price: $1 for 36 napkins. Caro name of the series: Grand Uproar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fractured Arias | 8/22/1955 | See Source »

Modern poetry often seems a pretty dreary cocktail party. In a quiet corner, of course, perches the aged eagle, T. S. Eliot, 66, still far and away the No. 1 living poet of the 20th century, sipping his extra-dry sherry of resignation. His old white magic still works, but it no longer holds any surprises. Eliot's lesser poetic cousins-Auden, Spender, Stevens-sip the highballs that somehow fail to intoxicate, that are diluted by too much intellectual ice. There are such grand old but long-familiar individualists as Martini-clever e. e. cummings (with lemon peel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Legend of Dylan Thomas | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

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