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Toys in the Attic. Playwright Lillian Hellman's taut, powerful drama about a weak ne'er-do-well's sudden wealth and the anguish this brings to the women who depend on his dependence on them. Jason Robards Jr. heads a fine cast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 2, 1960 | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...testifying about the industry as a whole and not as a witness against Squibb. (After recurrent bouts with tuberculosis, he quit the company to go into private practice in Princeton, N.J.) Then Dr. Console declared: "The incidence of disease cannot be manipulated, so increased sales volume must depend at least in part on the use of drugs . . . improperly prescribed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Too Many Drugs? | 4/25/1960 | See Source »

...finest tacticians, to shake new life into aging but still skilled veterans. Fatal flaw of the Braves last year was the hole at second base. This spring Red Schoendienst, 37, back from a bout with TB, is trying to plug the hole. ¶ The well-balanced Pittsburgh Pirates depend in the end on Pitcher Bob Friend, who had a miserable season last year (8-19). This spring, with Friend apparently back on the track, the Pirates ripped off ten straight victories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Babies at Vero Beach | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

With everyone getting into the swim, Cousteau and his fellow experts fret about safety. They deplore any attempt to set records, either with or without an Aqua-Lung.* Snaps Cousteau: "It does not depend on your ability as a diver. You are just finding out what your physique can stand that day." Last year the Portuguese spearfishing champion, a top-flight French diver and two strong Americans drowned because apparently they blacked out while swimming with held breath, and gulped water. In place of spearfishing competition, Cousteau would like to see surface races between swimmers wearing masks and foot fins...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Poet of the Depths | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...Russians dumped 18,000 tons of tin into a saturated world market, hoping to create price chaos. But Malaya, Bolivia and Indonesia, which depend heavily on tin exports, complained bitterly, forced the Reds to halt their dumping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE UGLY RUSSIAN: Red Trade Blunders Benefit the U.S. | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

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