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...means the kind of Americans we want to keep alive. It's the Russian lack of Christian charity that can possibly start a third war, and people like the Davis family, with their store of machine guns and invulnerable doors, who will be preserved to throw empty tin cans and begin a fourth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 25, 1961 | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...bleatniks are a strange and varied lot. Seen in San Francisco, in the vicinity ot Union Square: a blind beggar with Seeing-Eye dog, with extended hand holding tin cup, and with his transistor radio "bleating" away. Could he have been begging for new batteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 25, 1961 | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...Ormet Corp., a subsidiary of Olin Mathieson. At the same time, the plastics industry has developed new products to compete with aluminum in pleasure boats, packaging and auto trim. And steel has started to offset aluminum's inroads by bringing out lighter, tougher and cheaper alloys and tin plates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metals: Aluminum Regains Its Shine | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

...listeners in San Francisco may soon-if the electronic wrinkles are ironed out-watch the video version of Gunsmoke while their radios blast out a Cantonese translation, courtesy of a local radio station. "Grab a hunk of sky," mouths Marshal Matt Dillon from the TV screen. "Ghur sao chiu tin" rasps radio's Cantonese cowpoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: The Bleatniks | 8/11/1961 | See Source »

...pictures by W. T. Cummings; Whittlesey House; $3.25) is as American as Our Town. Esta Maude Hay is a spinster schoolteacher who lives in a rickety house on the edge of town, with two cats, a goldfish and a parrot. She dresses in black and drives a black, vintage tin lizzie, known as "Miss Esta Maude's machine." But Esta Maude has a flaming secret vice, a racy, sin-red sports car that she drives like the wind of a Friday midnight. Author-Illustrator Cummings manages to be folksy, foxy, and covertly Freudian all at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: For Children | 8/4/1961 | See Source »

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