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...Sonntag, 18, lifeguard at an Austin pool and grandson of Paul Bolton, longtime friend of Lyndon Johnson and news editor of the Johnsons' Austin television station, was accompanying Claudia Rutt, 18, for a polio shot she needed before entering Texas Christian University. Claudia suddenly sank to the ground. Paul bent over her, then pitched to the sidewalk himself. Both were dead. A block north, Political Scientist Harry Walchuk, 39, a father of six and a teacher at Michigan's Alpena Community College, browsed in the doorway of a newsstand after working all morning in the college library. He was shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Madman in the Tower | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

Whiskers hanging down to his waist, clutching a stick for support, a bent figure hobbled onto the starting grid at Holland's Zandvoort race track last week, made his way slowly to a sleek green-and-gold car sitting in the front row. Then, with a smirk at the astonished crowd, Jack Brabham dropped the cane, pulled off the whiskers, revved up the engine of his Brabham-Repco racer, and roared off to win the Dutch Grand Prix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: The Grand Old Man | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

Unlike records, the cartridges are simple enough to be played by children without suffering scratches, dirt or bent needles. While an LP is designed to last for 75 playings, a tape will last five times that long. The new eight-track cartridge (price: from $4.95 to $10.95) is about the size and weight of a paperback book, requires no threading or rewinding. The driver can easily slip it into the dashboard player without taking his eyes off the road; it plays through four speakers-usually mounted in the front and rear doors-without interference from bumpy roads, tunnels, bridges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: In a Merry Stereomobile | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

...each year-5,000 murders and 12,000 accidents and suicides. Since 1900, guns have brought death to approximately 750,000 people in the U.S., considerably more than the 530,000 Americans killed in all U.S. wars. Many of the criminal killings would have occurred anyway-a person bent on murder could always use another weapon-but the easy availability of guns undoubtedly swelled the total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guns Unlimited | 7/29/1966 | See Source »

...civilization. The Government tried to pressure the Indians into selling out, but failed; then it opened a military campaign against them. Jackson shows that the Indians who jumped Custer in 1876 had not yet lost the Black Hills. They fought simply because Custer with typical recklessness was riding hell-bent to attack them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Rash Colonel | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

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