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...casual eye, it was beautiful. But the beauty was lost on officials at the Institute for Snow Research and Avalanches in Davos. Tests indicated that the new snow was not binding with the old. And when warm weather followed last week, and the snow began to melt, the warning flashed out quickly: "Lawine [Avalanche...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Switzerland: The Last Race | 4/24/1964 | See Source »

...sweetness and chastity, however. The maid (Bina Breitner) is having a not-so-discreet fling with a beatnik named Claude (Larry Gonick), and even Mother's cardinal virtues melt quickly into carnal pleasures in his agreeable arms...

Author: By Joseph M. Russim, | Title: Two Sketches at the Ex | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...civil rights and poverty, will develop as the major source of group identification (in New York City and the nation), joining the Irish and Italians wth those already part of the American mainstream, dividing the Jews, and providing Negroes and Puerto Ricans a stronger sense of community. Although the melting pot, as Glazer and Moynihan point out, doe not melt away conflict and produce uniformity, it does continually recast the nature of the conflict...

Author: By Robert F. Wagner jr., | Title: Beyond the Melting Pot | 4/8/1964 | See Source »

...salamanders that came to life after being frozen solid for 5,000 years; a semiconductor device that gives out more energy than is fed into it; a monster that leaves tracks on the bottom of the ocean; a heavy mass of ice that fell from space and did not melt; a mysterious force pervading the universe that makes all revolving bodies, such as Earth, take on a heartlike shape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science Fiction: Message from 61 Cygni | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

...call a halt. A mere 3,000,000 silver dollars were left in the vaults (out of 28 million on Jan. 1), and Secretary Douglas Dillon let it be known that the Treasury would take its time about deciding what to do with the cartwheels that remained. Possible alternatives: melt them down, auction them off to dealers and collectors, put price tags on them and sell them over the counter, or put the whole thing up to Congress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: Turning Cartwheels | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

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