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Chemical Flood. In existing American and foreign arsenals, there are no deadlier weapons than nerve gases. Usually odorless and colorless, they were accidentally discovered by German researchers in 1936 and were a closely held secret until the end of World War II, when the Allies captured Nazi stores. Releasing a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: TOWARD THE DOOMSDAY BUG | 9/6/1968 | See Source »

The great detective leans over the body on the floor of the overdecorated flat. "I think I'm going to be sick," says his young assistant. "No, you're not," the detective tells him. "Tense your muscles and take notes: nude Caucasian male, penis cut off and lying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Movies: The Detective | 6/7/1968 | See Source »

Make-Believe Alexander Pope must have been wrong, poor chap. The proper study of mankind is not man, but-in current fiction, at any rate-his phallus. Novelists are exploring ever more intimately, not to say enviously, the wondrous achievements of recognized bedroom supermen. In fact, everyone-heroes, authors, readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Make-Believe | 2/23/1968 | See Source »

Power Play. Which indeed the plot resembles. Myra is actually a Myron who has had a Christine Jorgensen-type operation and is passing through Hollywood, trying to rape havoc upon unwary heterosexual males. To Myra, sex involves power play, with more power than play; the book's most harrowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Myra the Messiah | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

The title is a typical O'Hara stunt, The Instrument refers explicitly to the way in which Yancey ("Yank") Lucas becomes the literary tool of an actress. It also refers to Yank's penis, which has no conscience whatsoever and contributes to the deaths of two of his...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What Love ls And Is Not | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

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