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...crisp sunshine and under cloudless skies, London readied itself for the much wrangled-over wedding of Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong-Jones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: The Last Weekend | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...huge storage tank, and then spit it out as a short but enormously powerful jolt of energy. And Zeus is dangerous, a fact well known to every one of the electricians who swarm over it. The least of Zeus's bolts could burn them to a crisp. When Dr. Tom Putnam, physicist in charge, gets ready to ask Zeus to hurl a trial thunderbolt, he takes elaborate precautions. First he locks the monster in its room. Then he starts the "permissive chain" on the control board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sudden Zeus | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

...election eve in New Hampshire, the big white clock in the cupola of Dover's city hall glowed down on the wintry town, and the resinous vapors of a torchlight parade gave a tang to the crisp night air. The kilted Granite State Highlanders tootled The Blue Bells of Scotland on their bagpipes, and John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the Democratic U.S. Senator from neighboring Massachusetts, marched behind them through the streets of Dover. In the city hall, 1,000 people waited to see Candidate Kennedy and to hear his last word in the first primary campaign of 1960. "Beginning tomorrow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: End of the Beginning | 3/21/1960 | See Source »

...ROBERT CRISP Ipswich, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 7, 1960 | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Brazen Chariots, by Robert Crisp. The inferno of tank warfare has never been better described than in this book by a South African major in the British army who fought Rommel at Tobruk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THEATER: On Broadway, Mar. 7, 1960 | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

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