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Royal Oak Township's Carver Elementary School is "a cinderblock monstrosity," is it? Well, this is the school I had to build in a nearby village one day last year toward the finish of the monsoon, and in two days of end-of-monsoon rain, it looked like this (see cut). When the four months' rain totaled 250 in., the kids moved into a 10 by 10 cowshed darker than the Black Hole and as miry as Andersonville; and when the cows needed shelter we had to move out again...
...drama and accomplishment, their duel was the most stirring man-to-man competition of the Olympic Games. Drenched by rain, California's strapping Rafer Johnson, 26 (TiME cover, Aug. 29), and Formosa's wiry Vang Chuan-kwang, 27, had struggled until u p.m. on the first day of the decathlon-the exhausting, ten-event test that would decide which was the world's best all-round athlete. On the second day, after the two men had wearily completed the ninth event (the javelin), statisticians figured that Johnson led Yang by a cliffhanging 67 points...
Guns Galore. A shower of new products and processes is augmenting man's age-old efforts to get in out of the rain. Minnesota's Schjeldahl Co.'s polyester plastic balloon structures can be built in half a day, need only an ordinary building fan to keep them inflated, will last five to ten years. Quonset-shaped, the Schjel-dome will work in the arctic or the tropics, can be used for garages and greenhouses, swimming pool covers and grain warehouses, is repaired with a hot iron...
...with no moving parts-will make possible a combined refrigerator and cooking element. The union of thermoelectrics and electroluminescence promises wall panels that automatically heat or cool, change colors and brightness to suit the mood and weather of the day. Windows will automatically close at the first drop of rain, reopen when the sun comes out. Throw-away plastic dishes will be made in every kitchen at the touch of a button...
Showpiece. To demonstrate to the world through this uncomplicated flyer the "insane aggressiveness'' of the U.S., Nikita Khrushchev had set up a show trial that evoked memories of Stalin's purge productions of the 1930s. All morning long in the cold Moscow rain, the black ZIM limousines rolled up to the court to disgorge Soviet Russia's Reddest-blooded aristocrats, including Khrushchev's daughter Elena. Out of the unaccustomed luxury of one of the ZIMs stepped Powers' wife, Barbara, 25. poised and cool in black, flanked by her mother and two lawyers. From another...