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A piranha-fishing trip last month in the headwaters of the Amazon River confirmed my impressions. The ferocity with which these creatures went after the bait was remarkable. The hands of our Indian guides were covered with scars of old piranha bites. Upon catching one of these tiny demons, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 19, 1966 | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

A lot of this noise about noise seems unnecessarily shrill, considering how much mankind loves the stuff. Italians put Alfa-Romeo horns on Fiats, and sometimes honk until the battery goes dead. Long before the chuffy steam engine, the average town was anything but a hushed haven of peace and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: WHEN NOISE ANNOYS | 8/19/1966 | See Source »

"I'll just head for my cabin at Lake Fork to do some fishing," said Governor Robert E. Smylie the morning after, "and chew on the grass, I guess." Bob Smylie, 51, had a lot to chew on. The dean of the nation's Governors, he had given...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Idaho: An Ironic Defeat | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

Pralines & Pompano. The young orchestra (average age: 33), when not involved in its programs or teaching 80 students at the festival's music school, is having a jolly good bash. Festival patrons have showered the musicians with champagne parties, shrimp boils at the yacht club, and enough pralines, hush...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Not Just Naked Girls | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

And everywhere were the two other hosts, Alfred L. Goldberg and Stephen C. Harrison, and Weil, in tux -- looking as irrepressible as a red and white fishing float.

Author: By Charles F. Sabel, | Title: Courtyard Festivals Are for Those Who Have "Neither Youth Nor Age" | 8/12/1966 | See Source »

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