Word: platee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wrote the article from his own notes, with the help of Researcher Fortunata Sydnor Trapnell and major contributions from TIME bureaus. During an interview with Schmidt at Caltech, Jaroff was especially pleased when the astronomer let TIME in on a secret. "I looked through the microscope at the photo plate showing the latest quasar he discovered," says Jaroff. It is the newest and most dis tant, and our cover story is the first published account of this discovery...
Squared Meal? In any case, Williams has pointed out, there are no clear guidelines as to the proportion of such expenses that can legitimately be deducted. How much of a $1,000-a-plate dinner can a company discount as a business expense? According to Internal Revenue Commissioner Sheldon Cohen, said the Senator, "deductions are allowable to the extent of the value of the meal." Demanded Williams: "Does it go up for a Democratic meal and down for a Republican meal...
Boredom at Home Plate. From Fort Hamilton to Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn today is an amorphous urban sprawl, the most populous (2,600,000 in 80.9 sq.mi.) and proletarian of all five boroughs that comprise New York City. The turning point probably came between the time Durocher left the Dodgers (1948) and the time the Dodgers left Flatbush (1958). Now a housing project occupies Ebbets Field, and one of its occupants, Rodney Kenner, 9, buried the Bums for all time last week as he rode a bicycle where home plate used to be. "You know," said Rodney, "baseball is a bore...
Until 5:30 the next morning he stays on the alert for clouds that might obscure the image on his photographic plate or for a sudden movement that could blur it. He nurses his equipment fastidiously as the world's largest telescope swings slowly across the sky, tracking the elusive targets that astronomers call quasars. They are the most distant objects ever seen...
...Parks describes how often he came within an eyelash of choosing violence and raw, corrosive hatred as his weapons in the struggle for dignity. After a fight with three white toughs in St. Paul, Minn.-a battle that left him with a dozen scars from getting pitched through a plate-glass storefront-he reflected how the white man's brutality "was nudging me into a hatred of him." After his first walk through Harlem's streets, he was convinced that "Mister Ofay"-the white foe-"was the enemy now, the lord of this filthy ghetto." White people...