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Occasion for the latest turndown was last month's visit to the Pentagon by General Gaston Lavaud, chief of procurement for the French Defense Ministry. He brought with him a reply to repeated Washington appeals that NATO nations do more of their military purchasing from American firms to help...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Gallic Bomb | 4/27/1962 | See Source »

Evacuation Very decent. An infinity of freshness In a little diffusion of bitter carbolic.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry in English: 1945-62 | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

"The danger of this stage is role diffusion; as Biff puts it in Death of a Salesman: 'I just can't take hold, Mom, I can't take hold of some kind of a life.' . . . Youth after youth, bewildered by his assumed role, a role forced on him by the...

Author: By Allan Kats, | Title: The Academic Suicide: Escape From Freedom | 6/15/1961 | See Source »

Astronomers have proposed two cosmogonic theories which are wholly consistent with the spectral observations. The older one assumes a constant diffusion over space of what was originally an exceptionally dense blob of matter. By computing the extent of the red shift at various distances, proponents of this theory have obtained...

Author: By William D. Phelan, | Title: Gamow Explains Rise of Cosmos | 4/27/1961 | See Source »

Like many abstract painters, Bertoia sees the universe as one great cup of energy. He is fascinated by the thought of "particles shooting through space," and the spiky mesh shown in color is his conception of the "track of these particles." Each wire had to be pulled separately through molten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Song-&-Dance Man | 3/31/1961 | See Source »

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