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...thrills by the hundred on this you can bet, but we can't be responsible when ya come back wet," warns a sign at the turnstile. After some tame swerves and curves through serpentine, sky-blue waters and up a steep lift-one big splash and some spray in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New York Fair: PAVILIONS | 6/19/1964 | See Source »

Philadelphia's twelve-year-old playground program has cost $30 million, is generally acknowledged to be the most successful in the country. No two of the city's 347 recreational facilities are identical: one has a series of concrete castles, one a squirrel house, another a spray pool. Newest equipment includes a 25-ft.-high rocket to the moon (with a helpful slide back to earth) and a gigantic turtle made of pipe and concrete. A big draw at the Penn Valley playground in Kansas City, Mo., is a magnificent woodpile composed of a series of tree trunks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Way Out to Play | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...finally stalked off, leaving the orchestra to play her signature, Over the Rainbow, again and again in a vain attempt to get her back. The next day Judy's manager explained that she was suffering from an allergy that made it necessary for her to spray her throat continually, and she was whisked into an airplane for Sydney so fast that her feet barely touched the ground. There was time, though, to kiss one reporter on the mouth and answer another's question about whether she thought she would retire. "I think so," said Judy. "I would like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Two Old Pros | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

Scientists were conducting pre-launch indoor tests and had just joined the rocket to its payload when the accident occurred. How the 515-pound rocket motor was ignited, causing it to spray flaming fuel throughout the experiment room, is still a mystery...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: Rocket Explodes at Cape Kennedy, Was Part of Harvard-Led Project | 4/15/1964 | See Source »

Sense of Courage. When Funny Girl finally opened, the novice star had added to her performance a dazzling spray of gestures, inflections and a hundred small takes. She was ready to carry the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: The Girl | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

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