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...mystical appeal to buyers, who pay up to $6,300 for the privilege of owning one. Like Rolls-Royce and Mercedes, however, the Porsche has been over taken by the times. It has just brought out two new models that radically de part from the upside-down soupspoon look that has made the Porsche one of the most popular sports cars. The new cars, one of which will also have almost a 40% boost in horsepower, are distinguished by a straighter, less sloping front and a fastback, built around a brand-new chassis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: West Germany: Porsche Faces Reality | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...pieces by a group of gypsy magicians chanting something that sounded like a Protestant hymn sung backwards. Still another victim-popular with modern fans-was bound, gagged and whipped; then the tips of her breasts were clipped off with hedge shears and her eyes were scooped out with a soupspoon and a jackknife. "We are very proud of that sequence," said Charles Nonon, the Grand Guignol's last director. "We consider it original, at least onstage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater Abroad: Outdone by Reality | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

...looks like a long wait. Time to buy a paper and order some personalized stationery. Remember an extra soupspoon, for dessert...

Author: By Anne Schneider, | Title: One Man's Meat | 7/17/1958 | See Source »

...Jersey. Up & down the State hurried Alexander ("Little Napoleon") Simpson, Democratic nominee for the Senate, caustically charging his Republican opponent, Dwight Whitney Morrow, with responsibility for hard times and unemployment. He compared Mr. Morrow to the Dalai Lama of Tibet, declared the Morrow butler perfumes the Morrow soupspoon. Nominee Morrow meets these attacks with such sweet reasonableness as: "It's not at all unnatural for the political party out of power to blame bad times on the political party in power. Conversely it is the habit of the party in power during a period of prosperity to take credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Shadow of the Polls | 11/3/1930 | See Source »

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