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Aside from the picturesqueness of it all, however, a thatched roof provides several definite benisons. Its thickness (about a foot, on the average) keeps noises out and it is a great weather insulator as well. But there are some drawbacks: once a thatched roof begins to deteriorate, birds find their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Just Swell | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

Aside from the picturesqueness of it all, however, a thatched roof provides several definite benisons. Its thickness (about a foot, on the average) keeps noises out and it is a great weather insulator as well. But there are some drawbacks: once a thatched roof begins to deteriorate, birds find their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Raising the Roof | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

It was quite plain that as we followed the highways through the land, the great birds followed the rivers, the edges of forests, and the contours of mountains with great shadowing rocks. That much was clear and appropriate and irony avoided until once, coming down a mountain on a dirt...

Author: By Michael Hentges, | Title: From a Journal of a Past Year | 5/10/1971 | See Source »

At the left-hand side of the stage, Garcia, heavy and round-checked, smiling benignly, almost maternally, looks calmly happy, interested in what is going on around him; all the while his fingers run through the strings on his guitar, releasing fast notes with easy precision, controlling the pitch, volume...

Author: By William S. Beckett, | Title: Come Hear Uncle John's Band . . . | 1/7/1971 | See Source »

Secret Formulas. The formula for each additive is closely guarded, and manufacturers discuss the ingredients only in vague terms. One major ingredient is usually polyisobutylene, which is made by combining molecules of certain chemicals with a butane derivative of crude oil. It produces approximately the same results as far costlier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Big Profits in Little Cans | 8/8/1969 | See Source »

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