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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Called Water Pik, this new bathroom accessory pumps out a thin stream of water that can be regulated from a trickle to a jet. When turned on full blast, the jet of water flushes out food, tickles the ivories and massages the gums, giving a user the invigorating impression that he has just had his teeth professionally cleaned. Its reservoir tank can be filled with anything from mouthwash to vodka, according to the owner's taste. Water Pik also converts into one of the world's most devastating water pistols. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gadgets: Tickling the Ivories | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

...Water! Water!" In one low-income neighborhood, Johnson halted his motorcade to look at waterlogged houses and a stream of refugees making their way to drier ground. He stopped to talk with one, an elderly Negro named William Marshall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Solace for a Stricken City | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...their resources, have visited the White House five times. Before the President gave his inaugural address, he called Barbara Ward in London and read it for her approval over the phone. And in recent months she has fed the President's top personal aide, Jack Valenti, a steady stream of memos offering advice on all manner of problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Lyndon's Other Bible | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...trickle of oxygen became a steady stream, joining in a chemical reaction with hydrogen to produce the electricity to run the craft's computer, radar, communications and environment-control systems. For reasons not yet fully understood, the pressure inside the oxygen tank increased as the volume of liquid oxygen decreased while it was being used. Soon the fuel cell was supplying Gemini with all the electricity it needed, and the astronauts began switching their systems back on. Fuel-cell experts had actually underestimated the system's efficiency, were surprised that they could get sufficient power with such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Flight to the Finish | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

Back in the U.S. in 1920, Sobel took a brief fling at the pro tournament circuit ("I couldn't make a dime"), settled into a succession of club jobs-at Long Island's Valley Stream Country Club, at the Westchester Embassy Club, at Grossinger's in the Catskill Mountains. His students included Steelman Charles M. Schwab ("The lousiest golf swing I ever saw"), and his reputation grew quickly. In 1953, as head pro at Miami's West View Country Club, Ross taught Cleveland Indians Third Baseman Al Rosen the fundamentals of golf. That summer Rosen clouted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: The Teacher | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

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