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A Crimson Snit. This has many professors in a snit, and they recently found a voice in the student-run Harvard Crimson. In six scathing editorials, the Crimson blamed Pusey for everything from this year's last-minute 10% hike in room rents to silence on such vital issues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Is Pusey Too Busy? | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

There is some truth to be seen from each vantage, even though the current prejudice is to see only what is visible under the magnifying lens. The Bible Salesman hangs uneasily between success and failure because its author, choosing the middle distance, is never quite able to do what a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eagle & X-er | 5/25/1962 | See Source »

Closed Set. "I'm amazed at the reasoning power of the crow," says Bird Trainer Ray Berwick, a raven perched on the top of his head. "Crows are the chimpanzees of birds. The hardest to train and catch are the hawks and eagles. You could teach them to hunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Alfred, Squeeze Me a Grape | 5/18/1962 | See Source »

Blue Puff. Physicist Kiyo Tomiyasu, 42, technical director of General Electric Co.'s laser lab, is particularly proud of the ease with which one of his lasers has drilled holes in a pea-sized black synthetic diamond. Diamonds, which are the hard est things known to man, have been...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Laser Magic | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

Find the Moon. Next day another series of commands streamed out across space. C.C. & S. listened, acknowledged and memorized. When the "execute" command came, Ranger turned the lens of its TV camera toward the approaching moon. The lid that protected the lens from micrometeorites was swung away; the camera was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Disobedient Rocket | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

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