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...Morocco's leftists, the French charges seemed to confirm the suspicions that they had felt all along-that Ben Barka had fallen prey to a right-wing conspiracy not only against the leftists but against Hassan as well. At week's end the Union Marocaine du Travail called a one-day strike in protest against the government's refusal to pursue a full investigation. The King called out troops in both Rabat and Casablanca to keep the strike from turning into full-blown riots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Morocco: J'Accuse! | 11/19/1965 | See Source »

...question surrounding today's game seems to be how much Princeton can roll up the score. Our guess is that two touchdown passes by Landeck and three field goals by Gogolak will give Princeton a 23-0 victory.Don Sadoski (43) is blocked by teammate (mercifully unidentifiable) and falls easy prey to a Penn tackier in last week's game...

Author: By Andrew Beyer, | Title: Crimson Football Team Hosts Tigers, Winners of 15 Straight | 11/6/1965 | See Source »

...interdictory hammering of roads, rail lines and military posts. A flight of Navy Skyhawks from the carrier Independence took out the third of some 20 Soviet-supplied surface-to-air missile sites-this one just 52 miles northeast of Hanoi. In 90 dizzy seconds, the Skyhawks swooped on their prey at 570 m.p.h., slammed 500-lb. and 1,000-lb. bombs into the site and watched one SAM squirt wildly along the ground "like a balloon that the air's coming out of." It was vengeance of a sort for the five U.S. planes that have fallen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: North Viet Nam: Bombs Away | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...course, there is always the predatory bachelor anxious for scientific help. With Sonuswitch, he never has to leave the couch. When he wants to turn off the light, all he has to do is clap his hands. There is still a handy riposte available for a quick-witted prey, however. She can slap him hard, twice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Products: A Clap of Light | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...Richard Widmark is a right-wing fanatic whose hot head simmers harmlessly ("It's a lot of work being a mean bastard") until his ship sights a Soviet sub prowling territorial waters off Greenland. The captain can scarcely restrain his thirst for the kill as he trails his prey, determined to force the snoopy sub to surface for air and identify itself. The clear thinking is done for the Good Guys by a former German U-boat commander (Eric Portman) on advisory duty, and by a Negro reporter-photographer (Sidney Poitier). The man to watch, though, is a jumpy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Man the Pushbuttons! | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

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