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...salt spray blinded. And tears grew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pasternak the Poet | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...expert (the ideal "is the man a woman can teach something about love he never knew before"). She also tells women how to make themselves more attractive to men. The depressing formula: constant exercise, no fried foods or fats, daily massage with cocoa butter followed by a cold spray, and a visit to the dentist "at least once a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BURLESQUE: The Peeled Grape | 9/28/1959 | See Source »

...crab grass. We've had wonderful luck with it.'' Trouble is that crab grass turns brown at the first frost. But Chicago's National Chemical & Manufacturing Co. has found one answer for that problem: Luminall Lawn Tint, a green paint that can be used to spray over all those brown spots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: The Wicked Weed | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

...unlimited hydroplanes. As much airplane as boat, they are bellowing giants powered by World War II fighter-plane engines, ride on two hand-size patches of hull and the submerged half of a whirling propeller, skip along the water like a flat stone thrown from shore, tossing spray with the sting of buckshot. No one knows how fast the top boats will go because no one has ever had them wide open, and for good reason: at speeds around 180 m.p.h., the slightest swell can send them hurtling into the air. Last week Seattle's Lake Washington reverberated like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Water Monsters | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...roostertail of spray soaring 50 ft. into the air, Stead seemed headed for certain victory when he spun off the course on the seventh lap. Stead wrestled Maverick back into the race, but could finish only fourth as Muncey brought Miss Thriftway home in front. But Stead was saved by the movie camera. Films of the start showed that Miss Spokane, which finished third, had crossed the line ahead of the gun. With Miss Spokane disqualified, Stead and Maverick took over third place, tied Muncey in total points, snatched the Gold Cup by a fractional advantage in average speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Water Monsters | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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