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...cities where he wrote his Epistles. Some were first-class, using classical Greek, balancing every sentence with the copious use of kais. Others were third-rate and knew only the koine kais, which have as much meaning as our colloquial ands. So kais are the most unreliable "figures" to pour into a computer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 29, 1963 | 3/29/1963 | See Source »

Many of these juvenile criminals hatch in a school system that one educator has labeled "a case of studied neglect." Into Washington's overcrowded school's each year pour 7,000 new students-95% of them Negroes. At Pierce school, a 69-year-old brick building with patched walls, peeling paint, and wrapping paper for window shades, nearly 400 students go to school in classrooms built for 280. On the third floor of Hine school (nicknamed "Horrible Hine"), litter and debris from a 1959 fire have yet to be cleaned up. The city's school dropout rate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Capital: The Keg with the Lit Fuse | 3/22/1963 | See Source »

Several days later, when Williams was driving to the picket line, another car full of white men attempted to flip him off the road. Williams managed to work both cars into a ditch by the roadside. The crowd around the cars started screaming: "Kill the niggers! Pour gasoline on the niggers!" The driver of the other car approached with a baseball bat, saying "Nigger, what...

Author: By Paul S. Cowan, | Title: Negroes With Guns | 3/16/1963 | See Source »

...Britain, Macqueen Cybernetics Ltd. has developed a monster that can do practically everything for a knitted garment except pour the customer into it. It scans a design electronically, then out of its computer brain come punched tapes that control the pattern of the material and tell each needle when to knit or purl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mechanics: How to Knit a Yacht | 3/15/1963 | See Source »

Extreme French-Canadian nationalism instigated the recent demand for separatism. The immediate result was the formation of the Rassemblement pour I'Independence National, headed by Dr. Marcel Chaput. Merely a political activist group, the R.I.N. has done plenty of shooting, but has accomplished practically nothing. Chaput, dissatisfied with mere shouting, resigned form the R.I.N. to form his own political party, the Parti Republican du Quebec. Guy Pouliot took over the leadership of the R.I.N. Meanwhile, Chaput allied himself with Dr. Raymond Barbeau and his four-year old Alliance Laurentienne. None of these separatist parties will win any seats, they will...

Author: By Ronald I. Cohen, | Title: Canadian Elections: Quebec | 3/13/1963 | See Source »

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