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∙MARLBORO FESTIVAL (July 12-Sept. 2) in Vermont is really a sort of busman's holiday for fine musicians. None of the 85 or so instrumentalists are paid; instead, most contribute $625 apiece to meet expenses. Free from concert pressures, the musicians split up into informal chamber music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Festivals: Sounds of a Summer Night | 7/26/1963 | See Source »

The fairways were pinched in to only 30 yds. wide in spots. All but six holes were "blind"-meaning that golfers could not even see the greens on approach shots. And the greens themselves were small, slick and snaky. Winds rising to 45 m.p.h. raked the fairways, turned the greens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Golf: The Old Pro | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

The Call to Greatness. Paul VI is neither inquisitor nor nepotist nor Renaissance prince. Yet he is a strange and complex man whom few have been able to define with precision. Italian Banker Vittorino Veronese, a former chief of Italy's Catholic Action movement, says that he has "such...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Papacy: The Path to Follow | 6/28/1963 | See Source »

Calculated Fantasy. Actually, no U.S. lunar landing is expected before 1967-but in 1964 the astronauts will take a test "trip," without ever leaving the ground, in an Apollo simulator built by General Precision's Link Division of Binghamton, N.Y. Link's business is make-believe, and the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Profit in Make-Believe | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

Sensations & Problems. There is nothing simulated about Link's success. The company now faces its brightest future since Founder Edwin Link, now 58, put together the first flight trainer in 1929. After selling thousands of Link Trainers to Allied Air Forces in World War II, Link foresaw the postwar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Profit in Make-Believe | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

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