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Defying the Experts. Cliff Garrett is a volatile, heavy-handed manager who likes to say that he built his company "on thin air." After aeronautic experts told him in the 1930s that men could never fly in the rarefied atmosphere above 12,000 ft., he profitably proved that they could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. Business: Built on Thin Air | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

THE TEMPTATION or DR. ANTONIO (Fellini ) thumbs the well-worn psychological text that outward prudishness masks inward prurience. Prim, black-suited Dr. Antonio (Peppino de Filippo) is a self-constituted one-man vice squad who sees signs of obscenity everywhere. One sign that puts him into a puritanical dither is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Every Italian a Stallion? | 6/29/1962 | See Source »

Into these gentle leaves tramps the hero, Sewell Smith, home from writing a bestselling novel and determined to take revenge on the town elders who long ago did in his daddy. What luck! All the elders have slept with the town's 14-year-old nymphomaniac. Smith plots to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Improving on Oedipus | 6/8/1962 | See Source »

To Seymour Levin, a bearded exile from Manhattan, the Pacific Northwest is the Promised Land. Standing beneath a night sky splashed with a million stars, breathing deeply of the forest air. Levin thinks, "Imagine getting all this for nothing!" He tramps for miles through the countryside, exchanging stares with cud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Wild Man from the East | 10/6/1961 | See Source »

The neutralist potentates grandly viewed an effusion of fireworks and ended their meeting in a miasma of self-congratulation. But to the U.S., which has given the nations represented at Belgrade more than $8 billion in aid since 1946, the neutrals' failure of nerve was deeply disappointing. It showed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neutrals: Run for Cover | 9/15/1961 | See Source »

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