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The Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah rank high on any list of the world's most desolate places, but they have a special fascination for a special kind of fanatic: the speed demon. This fall's visitors have included a motorcyclist who flipped his bike at 150 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Auto Racing: Mr. & Mrs. Speedlove | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

Nonetheless, in Scenarist James Poe's gritty adaptation of the cold war thriller by Mark Rascovich, Bedford appears to be powered by superpatriotism. Captain Richard Widmark is a right-wing fanatic whose hot head simmers harmlessly ("It's a lot of work being a mean bastard") until his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Man the Pushbuttons! | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

As further discrediting evidence, the defense introduced a paperback book found on Daniels' body, Meyer Levin's The Fanatic. And as a clincher, Defense Attorney Vaughan Hill Robison waved the dead seminarian's maroon undershorts in the courtroom: they looked red and, he said, "smell of urine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: A License to Kill | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

What nobody will question is that Nazi SS men were often savage sadists, that Jewish survivors of Buchenwald endured incredible torments, and that a bunch of high-ranking political hostages bottled up in a Bavarian castle keep and threatened with execution would try very hard to escape their German jailers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Current & Various: Oct. 8, 1965 | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

LANGUAGE ON VACATION, by Dmitri A. Borgmann. The author is a word fanatic of the most ingenious order, producing a compendium of resolutely useless, teasingly fascinating information about anagrams, antigrams, palindromes. How many people can look at Satan and see Santa?

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Oct. 1, 1965 | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

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