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Having spent more than an hour in a traffic jam with nothing else to do but ponder this puzzling paradox, I finally decided he must perforce be using the Smith and Wesson model 41 with the short barrel. This seems to me the only possible weapon consistent with his character...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 11, 1963 | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...rules, all canons of art vomit death," Ensor said, and his etchings fire from every barrel, trying style after style even within a single year of production. His first plate was done in 1886, when he was only 26, and shows an amazing early technical mastery. By the end of that year, Ensor had ranged in motif from a fine-line portrait of the Swedish botanist Frise to a haggard, almost Hogarthian satire on historical painting in the grand manner, entitled Iston, Pouffamatus, Cracozie and Transmouff, Celebrated Persian Physicians, Examining the Stools of King Darius after the Battle of Arbela...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Ensor As Etcher | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

...secures two advantages. First, the flanker is in a better position to block than in the regular T, since he is closer to the line of scrimmage. Second, whenever the offense realigns its manpower, the defense must counter with an equal adjustment. Otherwise, the team running the ball will barrel through a spot where the opposition is undermanned. In the flanker T formation, six men are on one side of the center; the defense must make a similar six-five division, or allow a dangerous power imbalance to develop on one side...

Author: By Grant M. Ujifusa, | Title: Yovicsin Stresses Simplicity, Flexibility in Playing Style | 10/5/1963 | See Source »

...know you buy a barrel of apples, and one of them is touched. That apple has to be removed, or it'll touch the rest of the apples." Then Genovese kissed Valachi. It was the Mafia's "kiss of death," to let Valachi know he was the apple to be removed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Killers in Prison | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

...situation is not in as critical a condition as that. As Chemical and Engineering News pointed out last week, space contracts have become an important part of the political pork barrel. "Legislators are caught in a serious political-economic squeeze. More than 90% of the space budget goes to nongovernment contractors, many of them in states and congressional districts so dependent on space contracts that their entire economies would suffer if these contracts were canceled or deferred...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Grandstands Are Emptying For the Race to the Moon | 10/4/1963 | See Source »

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