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...achieved greater self-rehabilitation. In 1957 he was a high school dropout of 23, an ex-Marine and jobless drifter. That summer he was charged with killing an acquaintance, a Ramsey, N.J., schoolgirl whose body was found in a deserted sand pit, her skull crushed by a 14-lb. boulder. Though Smith vehemently denied guilt, he was convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to die in the electric chair at Trenton State Penitentiary. Instead of vegetating in his cell, Smith, now 36, has fully employed his genius-level IQ (154). He has read scores of books, rushed through college correspondence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: From Killers to Priests: Six Men Behind the Bars | 1/18/1971 | See Source »

PETER THORPE Boulder, Colo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1970 | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...have become a substitute for drugs. Says Ron Johnson, who runs the Clear Moment store in Bloomington, Ind.: "Now that drugs have sort of fallen off, the new diets are the things. The kids think it increases their awareness." Says Hanna Kroeger of the New Health Foods store in Boulder, Colo.: "The young are beginning to realize that drugs aren't real. They thought it was a shortcut to the spiritual. But the 18-and 19-year-olds are turning back. They put themselves into preparing food now." Even some of those who have remained on drugs have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The Kosher of the Counterculture | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

...made verse and well-made novel, she convincingly suggests that the overcivilized and the barbarous are one. Yet the Atwood message is beyond formulated pessimism; it has the rhythmic cycling of hope and despair natural to life itself. A lyricism as honest as a blade of grass in a boulder's crack keeps thrusting through. And so marriage, under the toughest scrutiny by Atwood the novelist, eventually is seen by Atwood the poet as "the edge of the receding glacier" where we crouch- where painfully and with wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Consuming Hunger | 10/26/1970 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Sydney Chapman, 82, British physicist and chief coordinator of the International Geophysical Year, I.G.Y. 1957-58; of a heart attack; in Boulder, Colo. Widely acclaimed for his studies of the sun, most notably his theory explaining how solar eruptions cause magnetic storms and auroral displays on earth. Chapman displayed an almost equal genius as manager and coordinator of I.G.Y., which engaged many thousands of scientists in a worldwide cooperative study of planet Earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jun. 29, 1970 | 6/29/1970 | See Source »

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