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...Chinese life, the tours nonetheless reveal a good deal of its quality and detail. The accompanying color pictures, taken on one such tour, show smiling children in their best dress, model schools, other civic projects and an air of brisk, bright uplift -but they also make clear the ceaseless indoctrination, the careful regimentation and the firm discipline that pervade life in Red China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHAT THE U.S. KNOWS ABOUT RED CHINA | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

...prize presents the biggest problems for the Times. With 4,800 sq. mi. of overlapping, interlocking governments, Los Angeles is a city editor's nightmare. To cover the sprawl, Metropolitan Editor Bill Thomas now assigns reporters to metropolitan-wide specialties-rapid transit, smog, property taxes. In its ceaseless search for talent, the Times has the hardest time locating competent copy editors, who are now in short supply across the nation. To fill the gap, the paper is about to embark on a program of recruiting copy editors straight from college and training them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Enterprise in Los Angeles | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

Another big asset is that the Enterprise has no smokestacks. On oil-burning carriers, acidic smog combined with salt-air corrosion necessitates ceaseless cleaning of aircraft and equipment. On the clinically antiseptic nuclear carrier, 15 to 20% fewer man-hours are required for corrosion control. The lack of stacks also gives the Big E space for an additional squadron in her "bird farm." On her second day in combat, the ship launched 134 sorties, more than any carrier had ever previously flown; it has since set a new record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: A's for the E | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...Bury builds well-wrought wooden sculptures concealing tiny electric motors that twitch in a random, nearly subliminal manner. At first glance, his sculptures seem static; then by degrees the spectator becomes aware that they are gently trembling and jittering with insectile gestures. Like molecules jostling to the ceaseless rhythms of Brownian movement, they express physical uncertainty and ambiguous motion. "Watch a plane in the sky," says Bury. "It barely seems to be moving. The eye is no longer able to trace the action, although it can easily follow a horse galloping along a country road...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Styles: The Movement Movement | 1/28/1966 | See Source »

Submitting himself to the discipline of a musical, he stuck with Golden Boy through two directors and ceaseless out-of-town strife, finally saw it become a Broadway phenomenon-a popular hit without a single popular song...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Stars: A Man of Many Selves | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

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