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...elimination of timber beams or their steel equivalent made ferro-cement cheaper, lighter, thinner, and the new process of production incomparably faster...

Author: By Stephen C. Rogers, | Title: Pier Luigi Nervi | 4/12/1962 | See Source »

...wonder is that he sprints at all. As a child in Asbury Park, N.J., he was sickly, and a possible attack of polio left his right calf two inches thinner than his left. But his mother knew how to make an athlete. ''Frank was just like a scrawny chicken," she says. "He was always getting awful colds. I tried everything. I massaged his legs with triple-distilled alcohol, triple-distilled witch hazel and imported Italian olive oil. I mixed up goose grease, mutton suet, nutmeg and camphorated oil, and rubbed it on his chest." Well-marinated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Fastest Human | 3/23/1962 | See Source »

...fewer than 200,000 in January of 1961). As a result, the average factory work week melted from 40.4 hours to 40 hours; this, in turn, helped to bring down industrial production and personal income, both of which are determined largely by the length of the work week. Thinner pay envelopes-and the weather-also kept people away from the stores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Undiscouraged | 3/2/1962 | See Source »

...enjoyed the contrasts: Harvard's tone balloons out round and warm, and projects best, as in the Welsh folk songs arranged by Davison--dense, pondering textures. But Yale thrusts out its lines with thinner but sharper tone, singing Leisring's O Fillii et Feliae with great verve...

Author: By William A. Weber, | Title: Yale-Harvard Glee Clubs | 11/27/1961 | See Source »

Broken Windows. After the visiting Communist VIPs filed onstage beneath a giant silvery head of Lenin embossed on purple plastic, the 13 members of the Soviet Party Presidium came on from stage left, headed by a fit-looking, somewhat thinner Nikita Khrushchev. "I propose we begin to work," said Party Secretary Khrushchev briskly. "The 22nd Congress is now in session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: One-Third of the Earth | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

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