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Tables with Legs. At a time when American decorators are taking up Japanese-style sliding doors and silk screens, many Tokyo housewives now cook with gas, wash dishes in stainless steel sinks, and serve meals, not to a family sitting cross-legged on straw mats, but at Western tables. By...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Life with a Key | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Pyroceram is the invention of Dr. S. Donald Stookey, head of Coming's fundamental research department, was designed originally to provide a missile covering that would withstand extreme heat resulting from air resistance. Other uses under way or planned: ball bearings, piston heads, curtain walls for skyscrapers, bulkheads for...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: Cooking | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

In a red, white and blue bus, the Republicans' political neophyte, retired Pretzel Manufacturer Arthur Toy McGonigle, 52, was doing his resolute best last week to retrieve the seat in Harrisburg that his party lost four years ago. The ride is uphill all the way. The Democratic candidate is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: KEY RACES TO THE STATEHOUSE | 10/6/1958 | See Source »

In the adjoining colony of French Guinea, people feel differently. In the capital city of Conakry, a once sleepy banana port that is now studded with French-built skyscrapers, Premier Sekou Touré thundered a loud "No!" Cried Sekou Touré: "We will vote no to a community which is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Free to Choose Freedom | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

While the model kitchen evoked a unanimous "so convenient," the many-storied parking garages, the interlocking multitiered roadways, the sheer number of cars on the roads caused the greatest awe. Visitors stood openmouthed in front of a photo that showed cars parked on a rooftop, bewildered about how they got...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: U.S. Architecture in Moscow | 8/11/1958 | See Source »

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