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...staff is betting that White House Chef René Verdon can't cook chili, Pedernales River or any other style. And we'll bet two bits he's never sunk a fang into a puree of garbanzos. All of which boils down to: "If you ain't tried it, don't knock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Viet Nam Situation | 1/7/1966 | See Source »

...money, did not let the gains go unchallenged. It blanketed the areas with ads, offered $1 ironing-board covers for 50? and cut the price of Clorox by 5? to 7? a bottle. Purex gave up, and by March 1958 its share of the Erie mar ket had sunk to 7%. Said the FTC, charging P. & G. with overwhelming its competitors: "In a fight to the finish, Procter & Gamble, whose aggregate scale of operations and fiscal resources dwarf the entire liquid bleach industry, cannot be bested." In 1963 the FTC ordered P. & G. to sell Clorox, and a decision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Company in a Quandary | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

...Carolyn (Mrs. Bernard Erskine), and the bitchy "Sylvia" by Barry's sister-in-law Sally (Mrs. Robert Goldwater). All of which did not dim the drama of the Act II hair-pulling scene between the two. And when Miriam looked at her arm, into which Sylvia had just sunk her teeth, and cried out, "My God! I need a rabies shot," it brought down the house. As for Sally Goldwater, the Phoenix Gazette thought she was the best in the cast: "A polished actress who scores heavily with a bold and brassy interpretation. She's a knockout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: Old Play, New Women | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

...stentorian voice what it was necessary to do to kill germs. I washed the dishes carefully, then took the hot water that I'd had the women heat and poured it over the plates and glasses. The rinsing with boiling water was the point of the lesson. Whether it sunk in or not is doubtful, but it was the first teaching I've done in the project, and for that I was happy...

Author: By Efrem Sigel, | Title: Working In Africa With The Peace Corps | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...built at a cost of $420 million will make a soft landing on the moon early next year, bite into the moon's crust to determine whether it is soft or hard, then use a long-legged TV camera to show observers on earth how deeply it has sunk. After Surveyor reports, Grumman Aircraft's buglike Lunar Excursion Module, for which the company has received a $400 million contract, is expected to ferry two astronauts from the orbiting Apollo capsule for the U.S.'s first manned landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: Business on the Moon | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

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