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Such sight gags as the football player outwitting the entire onrushing opposition are so original that they are hilarious. With the visual aspect of motion pictures offering so much, one wonders why writers try so hard to work clever lines into modern day comedy. When the silent picture comedies - obviously...

Author: By Arthur G. Sachs, | Title: Harold Lloyd's World of Comedy | 7/30/1962 | See Source »

Serious Weaknesses. McNamara observed -before the Kwajalein test that it would be conducted under "controlled conditions that differ substantially from actual combat." In last week's test the onrushing Atlas ICBM actually carried a transmitter to clue the slender, 48-ft. Nike-Zeus bird in on its target.* In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: The Flyswatters | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

Arizona Refuge. The orgy of superstition was not peculiar to Asia. Even sophisticated New York had its worriers, some of whom called the Hayden Planetarium for reassurance. In Southern California, western capital of cockeyed cults, local astrologers did their best business in years. Like their Indian colleagues, they predicted natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Doomsday Deferred | 2/9/1962 | See Source »

His technique is both simple and lethal. Operating to depths of 100 ft. without special breathing apparatus, Scotty relies on his own aquatic agility and a deadly "powerhead," a 5-ft. metal pole topped by a steel tube loaded with a 12-gauge shotgun shell. Fortnight ago, on his way...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shark Killer | 7/7/1961 | See Source »

With 100 miles still to go, mechanical failures and accidents had sidelined 21 starters. Most spectacular of the pile-ups occurred when Driver Don Davis lost his crankcase and piled into the retaining wall. Recklessly trying to sneak past Davis' stalled car, Rookie Driver A. J. Shepherd spun directly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Family Feud | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

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