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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third reason is privacy. When I want to be alone, I can; when I want to see other people, I can always drop in on friends. Fourth, I suffer from no parietal rules to restrict my making friends. . . . Last, and for once, least, I can wear a T-shirt to dinner if I want. I don't have to eat three meals a day in a Kiwanis Club atmosphere...

Author: By Craig K. Comstock, | Title: Still Needed: 'Real House' for Non-Residents | 5/7/1959 | See Source »

Asked if he meant that he couldn't go, or just didn't want to go. Truman replied laughingly: "I said I couldn't go. You can put any interpretation that you like on that--as you always...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: MacLeish Merits Pulitzer Prize For Broadway Production 'J.B.'; Truman Not to Visit White House | 5/5/1959 | See Source »

...problems of the upcoming Geneva conference. That is why he organizes high-sounding discussions on his Open End show. Says his wife: "It's his Alexander the Great complex." Although, at 38, Susskind is undoubtedly TV's most successful dramatic producer, the complex keeps him going. "I want to have my own marquee value, like Sam Goldwyn and Cecil B. DeMille," he says. "Then I wouldn't always have to bother about getting big stars for every show. If people accepted it as a Susskind production, that would be ideal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Producer's Progress | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

...runs in his first eight games. Shortstop George Strickland, 33, who actually retired in disgust a year ago and returned only at the urging of Cleveland top brass, was hitting a whopping .360 in stark contrast to his lifetime average of .223. Says Strickland: "I don't want to analyze what I'm doing right. I'm just happy I'm doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spring Heroes | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

GETTING information from a satellite is tricky business. "If you want to measure the temperature up there," says Van Allen, "you can't put a mercury thermometer in your bird. You have to read temperature as an electrical signal." This is done with a tiny "thermistor," whose resistance to current put out by the satellite's batteries varies with temperature. The change affects the frequency of the electronic signal sent out by the satellite's transmitter, thus reporting the temperature to the ground...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: VOICE FROM SPACE | 5/4/1959 | See Source »

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