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His eleven-minute talk ended, Lyndon and Lady Bird hurried off to Jacqueline Kennedy's seven-bedroom brick house in Georgetown to attend a small gathering that was part housewarming and part memorial to the late President. As a tribute to his predecessor who had "worked so hard and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: The First 100 Days | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

After all that happened to him, Hodgins emerged more or less intact: he could still see, read and speak. Most important, he could still write-with a ballpoint pen. It took three pens, and more agony than he may care to admit, to write Episode. The fact that it was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rehabilitation: Mr. Blandings' Nightmare | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

Eavesdropping may not be nice, but it gets niftier all the time. From gleaming electronics factories and grubby back-street workshops has come an ever-subtler array of "surveillance instruments" to penetrate the individual's privacy. The devices are now so easy to plant and so hard to detect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: Bug Thy Neighbor | 3/6/1964 | See Source »

Social Stress. Anxious to learn how overcrowding does work, Calhoun put rats in four interconnected pens six feet square. Two of the pens were quickly pre-empted by boss male rats that kept harems of females and allowed no other males to mate with them. The harem females made proper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sociology: A Self-Corrective for The Population Explosion? | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

Dr. Hoagland is not prepared to predict flatly that any of these unhappy effects will appear among the earth's human population as its density increases. But he makes some dark suggestions. Even though most inmates of crowded human slums escape to pleasanter places from time to time, he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sociology: A Self-Corrective for The Population Explosion? | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

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