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With a huge gush of smoke and flame, the three-stage Thor-Able rocket last week roared from its Cape Canaveral launching pad, soon to swirl its 270-lb. package into orbit around the earth. To the scientific skeptics who claim that satellites are little more than spectacular stunts, that package provided a spectacularly practical answer: looking down from hundreds of miles in space, it could take and transmit pictures of the earth and its cloud-splotched atmosphere. At the very least...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Weather by Satellite | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

...before the crowd had twisted his thumb so enthusiastically that he could not play the next day against Cuba. Worse yet for Panama fans, Lopez announced that he was too sick to take the field. After Lopez' hapless sub had made two errors, orange husks began to swirl out of the stands like snow. Hundreds of spectators jammed around the dugout as desperate umpires begged Lopez to play so that the game could go on. Lopez finally acceded to the wishes of his public, but he went none for four as Cuba trimmed his team 10-7 and walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: El Beisbol | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...hockey's brightest new star is a baby-faced youngster with blond curly hair: 20-year-old Bobby Hull of the Chicago Black Hawks. His fullback's legs let him flash to a halt in a swirl of shaved ice, start again in a burst of speed that may well be the most explosive in the National Hockey League. He is solid enough (5 ft. 10½ in., 190 Ibs.) to hold off a defense man with one thick arm while stickhandling the puck with the other. And when he slaps one of his lefthanded shots, the puck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Thunder on the Left | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...hill through olive groves, past herds of goat and sheep, come the worshipers on Christmas Eve to the quiet Judean town. Peasants walk to Bethlehem wearing medieval costumes, silk-hatted diplomats swirl into Manger Square in black limousines. And in entering the Church of the Nativity, all bend low to pass through the tiny door called The Needle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Rich Poverty ... | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...Magician (Swedish). A Kafkan swirl of flesh and symbols by Sweden's Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 14, 1959 | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

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