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...rose-red city half as old as time," the Naba-taeans were almost unknown, but they had prospered mightily. Their cities, roads and forts were all over Trans-Jordan. They knew how to make the most of a water-short land, and when they moved into the Negev, they outdid themselves. Glueck often found their elaborate water systems almost intact, though seldom used or recognized by the modern inhabitants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Archaeology: The Shards of History | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

Rice and Houston, if less dazzling in their records, were no less consistent. Rice's second-place effort against Dartmouth was his fourth successive finish as number-two man for the Crimson. Houston bettered Rice in the other races, and outdid himself in placing fifth in the Big Three meet, less than 20 seconds behind second-place Smith...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 11/20/1963 | See Source »

...bloodedly murdered some 50 policemen, staged an endless series of robberies, hijackings, kidnapings and bombings. Through it all, Betancourt kept a tight rein on his temper; he regarded the F.A.L.N. as a civil police matter, an annoyance to be handled by ordinary criminal procedure. But last week, the F.A.L.N. outdid itself: it took on the army, and Betancourt swiftly declared all-out war against Venezuela's Communists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Venezuela: Counterattack | 10/11/1963 | See Source »

Agents in Overalls. For the royal visit, the Macmillan government mounted a security force that outdid even the Bulganin-Khrushchev welcome in 1956. On hand were 5,000 police, including plainclothesmen disguised in everything from morning coats to overalls. As the royal procession of carriages clip-clopped from Victoria Station, where Elizabeth greeted them, to Buckingham Palace, a woman burst from the crowd and shrieked: "Release my husband!" She turned out to be Mrs. Betty Ambatielos, 45, the English wife of Antonios Ambatielos, a Greek Communist serving a life term for his part in the cival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: A Foolish Display | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

Since the hated Wall went up in 1961, escapees have ingeniously gotten past it by tunneling, climbing, jumping, or by just knocking it down. Last week a young Austrian outdid them all, smuggling out his pretty fiancée and her mother through the simple expedient of keeping his head down. Heinz Meixner, 20, had moved to West Berlin two years ago to take a job as a lathe worker. As a foreigner, he was able to cross the line freely into East Berlin, where, at a students' dance last September, he fell in love with tiny, attractive Margarete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Berlin: Two Inches to Safety | 5/17/1963 | See Source »

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