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First the left foot, scraping the dirt near the back of the box, establishing this dominion. Then, settling the helmet with the right hand. Finally the foot, closer to the plate, more mobile than the anchoring left foot. One easy practice swing--just one and then the body tightened. Bat...

Author: By John D. Reed, | Title: '67--The Year the Sox Won the Pennant | 10/3/1967 | See Source »

After wandering to Dresden, Vienna and Munich, Bellotto settled in Warsaw in 1767. He spent the next decade recording 26 views of the city for King Stanislas Augustus of Poland. It was to Bellotto's crystalline and chillingly immobile visions of Warsaw's palaces, churches and streets, crowded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: The Vagabond Vedutista | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

To get the surgical precision necessary to hit only certain targets in the North Vietnamese cities, Navy pilots recently began using a new, superaccurate torpedo-shaped missile that is called "the Walleye" (after the various species of fish, particularly the American pike, that have protruding eyes). The bomb's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: New Bombing Strategy | 9/22/1967 | See Source »

Do-Gooders & Psychotics. The arti cle was only one of many the Rifleman has been running lately, urging Americans to keep and bear arms and not let anyone take them away. Heretofore, the Rifleman, and some 14 other U.S. gun magazines such as Guns, Guns & Ammo, Muzzle Blasts and Precision...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazines: Glory of Guns | 8/25/1967 | See Source »

Across Iowa's corn country, huge machines with anteater snouts gulp the ears off 8-ft.-high cornstalks, an instant later spit golden kernels into self-contained bins. In California, packing machines out in the fields seal freshly picked lettuce heads in plastic, drop them into cardboard boxes, then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Agriculture: Toward the Square Tomato | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

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