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...spheres as close together as possible around a central sphere, he found that instead of forming a still bigger sphere, they made a 14-faced polyhedron-six of the facets in the form of squares, and eight as triangles. Fuller called this figure a vector equilibrium because the outward thrust of its radial vectors is balanced by the restraining force of its circumferential vectors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: The Dymaxion American | 1/10/1964 | See Source »

Contrary to common belief, it is not outward bleeding from a wound that cripples and eventually kills most hemophiliacs; it is internal bleeding, especially into the joints, that does the damage. "This," said Manhattan's Dr. Henry H. Jordan, "is more crippling than either polio or arthritis. But it's incredible what rehabilitation can do. Many patients can discard a brace, for example, after five or even ten years." Today, some hemophiliacs work as longshoremen and loggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hematology: Heredity & Clotting Factors | 12/27/1963 | See Source »

Ecumenical Overtones. The reform has striking ecumenical overtones. For if the Liturgical Commission has its way, the Roman Mass of the future will bear a much greater outward resemblance to the Anglican and Lutheran Communion services developed by the Reformation fathers 400 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Modernizing the Mass | 12/13/1963 | See Source »

Crossed Neckties. Even before the assassination, the problem was on the minds of 3,000 Gaullist delegates who gathered in Nice during the fatal weekend in a valiant effort to create a young, forward-looking image for De Gaulle's party. The outward trappings were fondly assumed to be à l'americaine: blue-suited hostesses, party emblems, name tags for delegates, neckties imprinted with the Cross of Lorraine. After the stunning news of Kennedy's death flashed through the meeting hall, Party Secretary Jacques Baumel noted that De Gaulle now was "one of the last great captains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: If It Happened to De Gaulle . . . | 12/6/1963 | See Source »

...frame his canvases because they do not end where his paint does. Some of his best adventures in paint occur close to the edges, where colorful jigsaw puzzle pieces are chopped off as if they had turned the corner into a new dimension. Other oils seem to spread relentlessly outward and upward like aerial photography of an erupting volcanic landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Aloof Abstractionist | 11/29/1963 | See Source »

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