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Many a Clevelander was apprehensive while the new tunnel was under construction. Lesser tunnels at the same site jangled nerves with their dreadful racket. This tunnel has an enormous muffler in which even the loudest sounds get lost. A screaming siren can be carried into the muffler and become inaudible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Biggest Tunnel | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

In The Power Elite Sociologist C. (for Charles) Wright Mills of Columbia University warns, in effect, that the U.S. is well on its way to hell in a hand basket. Its leaders are morally bankrupt ("America is indeed without leaders"); its people are whipped around by TV and public-relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Big Bad Americans | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

Half a dozen men locked arms, others seized hold. One by one, the exhausted men of Platoon 71 reached the mudbank. The last two half dragged to safety Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon, who had worked himself to near-exhaustion trying to correct his dreadful mistake.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Death in Ribbon Creek | 4/23/1956 | See Source »

Get Off Your Butt. On the third day the winds were even worse. Scores soared like kites. Venturi finished the first nine in a dreadful 40. "There he blows!" murmured a spectator, and most of the crowd agreed. Then Middlecoff went out in a brisk 35 to take the lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Master of the Masters | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

Lilly kicks off with a brisk survey of the U.S. scene today-"truly a golden age for women"-and then goes straight to work on how to get the mining done. "First take off all your clothes and stand in front of a full-length mirror and look at yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Glad Hatter | 3/26/1956 | See Source »

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