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Vladimir Vasiliev, 19, the youngest member of the Bolshoi company. A favorite trick: to bound straight off the stage, extend one leg, tuck the other under him and casually descend in perfect balance on one foot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: No. 2 Pushechnaya Street | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...languishing in sixth place in overall U.S. car sales. Last week "Bunky" Knudsen's hot-rodding Pontiac was at the top of the medium-price field, with 30% of that market; sales were up (117% in April, 60% for the year), and Pontiac was in a nip-and- tuck race with lower-priced Plymouth for third place in overall standings. On G.M.'s corporate-profit sheets, Pontiac stood second only to Chevrolet; around the G.M. building in Detroit there was quiet talk that Bunky Knudsen might well become G.M. president some day. From the start, Bill Knudsen insisted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Chip Off the Old Engine Block | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...according to anybody else connected with the show. And practically everybody gives the credit to the Oriental qualities of patience and politeness. Says Production Supervisor Jerry Whyte, a tough veteran of R. & H. shows since Oklahoma!: "I dread to think another show with two principals running nip and tuck like this one. But here you see no rivalry. They have a genuine friendship for each other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: The Girls on Grant Avenue | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...game began at a nip-and-tuck pace, each team exchanging baskets and intermittent foul shots, with the varsity quintet always managing to stay a few points ahead. The Crimson was operating as a unit--hitting frequently on set shots against Williams' early zone defense, rebounding well, playing a three-man press for the first few minutes, and using an effective zone of its own for the second time this season...

Author: By Thomas M. Pepper, | Title: Bowditch's Spurt in Second Half Helps Five to Top Ephs, 80-70 | 12/11/1958 | See Source »

Grime Bomb. In Denver. Dr. James L. Tuck, thermonuclear research chief at Los Alamos. N. Mex.. caused much speculation by keeping an oddly bulging briefcase always at his side during a conference, later revealed that it contained part of his wife's vacuum cleaner, which she had asked him to have fixed in Denver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Nov. 10, 1958 | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

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