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Quite apart from your mind, however, your bowels, as your center of gravity, have this extreme feeling of weightfulness. Your body tingles with the speed and your toes want to crawl back upwards away from the deep magenta...

Author: By John G. Short, | Title: On Jumping Out of Airplanes | 11/21/1968 | See Source »

...slit its wrists now would be like the parents of a six-month old infant giving the child away because, instead of walking, it could only crawl...

Author: By Jeffrey D. Blum, | Title: HUC Death Wish | 11/19/1968 | See Source »

...which all '69s were up for sale, were running at an average 34% a day ahead of the same period a year before. The biggest improvement was achieved by Ford, which increased sales by 180% over, last year, when a 49-day strike slowed its business to a crawl. The other three automakers also increased sales: General Motors by 11.7%, Chrysler by 7%, and American Motors by a slender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: New Horizons | 10/25/1968 | See Source »

...back and forth from the clock over the pool to Jennifer, who was swimming laps. When a slim girl in a pink bikini emerged from the Ladies' locker room and slipped quietly into the water, the boy in the white suit abandoned his romantic look and began a fast crawl down the middle of the pool. The third boy, unable to find a secure place for his watch and wallet, held them self-consciously in one hand and, taking off his glasses which were fogged up from the heat, joined two girls in a discussion of Chem...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: One Pink Bikini | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

...When Krock joined The Times, in 1927, he was al ready a leading figure in American journalism. He had been shot at while covering Kentucky elections for the Associated Press in 1909, challenged to a duel for insulting a French newspaperman in Paris in 1918 ("Somehow, I managed to crawl out of that fix"). As assistant to Publisher Ralph Pulitzer on the old New York World, he was as signed to "ride herd on Herbert Swope," the paper's imperious editor, and to take over the editorial page when Walter Lippmann was away. It was, he says, an impossible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Columnists: Memoirs of a Mourner | 9/27/1968 | See Source »

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