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Near the Colton airport, which he operates, Maxwell and two contractor partners dug a 17-acre lake in the shape of a hollow rectangle and lined it with plastic to keep the water from draining away into the sand (TIME, Oct. 12, 1962). In the center is a 4½-acre park with a swimming pool, paddle-tennis courts, refreshment stands and palm trees. The 250-ft.-wide ski course runs beneath four towers that support an overhead steel cable, powered by a 74-h.p. diesel engine. At ten-second intervals it carries 77-ft. tow ropes past a carpeted...
...whines like a hyena and eats like a pig. Mere Ubu (Virginia Morrs) comes on with a Bela Lugosi accent, smelling roses, swearing at her husband and slaying a mock army with a toilet brush. Sidney Goldfarb plays a Brooklyn Hamlet out to avenge his slain father with a plastic baseball bat. Everybody bellows and jumps around...
Moynihan cautioned architects and city planners to avoid designing and building the sort of "lifeless city" he encountered in Brasilia, where "you feel that you are one of the plastic people that designers put on a model...
...introduce the cold cannula through the urethra. To make sure of the placement, the surgeon's finger can check the position of a button on the side of the probe as it nears the prostate. The cold is then turned on. The patient needs a catheter (a plastic tube) through the urethra for a few days to permit urination, but has far less discomfort than with older procedures and is in much less danger of infection. So far, the Buffalo doctors have used this method in 50 cases, 17 of them with cancer. The results: "Most encouraging...
With all the glitter and glamour, it might have been the premiere of a new Fellini film. Row after row of limousines pulled up, cameras clicked on all sides, and the chic, smartly dressed guests sipped Scotch and martinis as they ogled a pop art exhibition that included plastic turkeys, fish, steaks and a display of Andy Warhol's stacked Brillo Boxes. There were roughly 500 Ibs. of real food per person-and no wonder. The bash that brought out Rome's smart set last week was the opening of Italy's largest supermarket, a two-story...