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This week the new tranquilizer goes on sale (by prescription only) throughout the U.S., with encouraging evidence that it will have the same effect on 70% or more of anxious, tense and hostile humans as it has on dingoes. Trade-named Librium by New Jersey's Roche Laboratories, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Tranquil But Alert | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Nixon's statement is exemplary of the most pernicious ideology of our times, and one that was adopted with "success" by national socialism and atheistic materialism. Mr. Nixon has been called "tricky Dick," but in this statement he has inadvertently tricked himself, as far as I am concerned.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 15, 1960 | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

Britain's National Gallery last week announced the purchase of a huge and handsome Rembrandt for upwards of $400,000. An equestrian portrait, 8 by 10 ft., the canvas had already been whisked off to the gallery laboratories for the tricky and controversial business of cleaning and re-lining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: How to Save Taxes | 2/15/1960 | See Source »

To make the Agena ignite a second time called for tricky engineering. A second charge of solid propellant to restart the turbopump was comparatively simple. But since the rocket would be fired while in orbit, when everything on a satellite is weightless, the fuel might be anywhere in the partly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Second Push | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

Sidney Bennett's tricky lighting that works, and a good set by Robert G. Skinner are other elements of a production that does nothing to obscure either the merits or the deficiencies of a play that has qualities of both.

Author: By Julius Novick, | Title: Children of Darkness | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

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