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Testifying before a Senate committee last year, then Attorney General Nicholas deB. Katzenbach officially put Government spending in the cities at $14.7 billion. In the same week, Robert Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, reckoned that it actually amounted to $28.4 billion; and Lyndon Johnson, with lightning application of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: THE NUMBERS GAME: Sums for Slums | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

Sailors forget their wives, their mistresses, their children and, of course, their bank accounts for the feel of the wind and the sound of the starting gun. Everybody remembers J. P. Mor gan's haughty retort not to ask the cost of maintaining a yacht. But everybody is doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yachting: The Intrepid Gentleman | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

Many Israelis think it is high time the Defense Army (regardless of what images it might evoke) and indeed it would be more appropriate. Aside from a standing army of some 50,000 troops, the Israelis depend on their Reservists who have had two years of active military duty and...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Impressions from Israel | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

In addition to the known natural phenomena mentioned by the Air Force to explain sightings, scientists suggest that there are probably still unknown or unverified atmospheric effects that could account for most of the unidentified apparitions. Astronomer Donald Menzel, former director of the Harvard College Observatory, believes that atmospheric refractions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A FRESH LOOK AT FLYING SAUCERS | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

Rumbling Thunder. Conductor Robert Craft and Director Bodo Igesz made the most of the fact that Cardillac is swifter and more dramatic than Hin demith's later operas. The elements cooperated too: distant thunder rumbled over the Rio Grande Valley as a vengeful Paris mob killed Cardillac, and through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: The Phoenix of Santa Fe | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

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