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...Adams and Dunster Houses, is wretched. Only one appointment has been made in the field of Geography. There are no permanent appointments in History and Lit. The water coming from both the hot and cold taps in Moors Hall is hot. Elsie's is too crowded. Animals still roam the streets of Cambridge. The "Flower Drum Song" is a hit. We do not yet have a winning football team. The parking regulations are arbirary and unjust. Moreover, the sky is falling...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Last Round-Up | 1/26/1959 | See Source »

...until he cradles the ball in his huge hands does the poker-faced Negro come alive. Then, graceful and cunning as a cougar, Elgin Baylor begins to roam for the Minneapolis Lakers. His hands flicker with the slick skill of a shell-game operator. His dribble is a rapid rat-a-tattoo inches off the floor. Smoothly, surely, Baylor prowls through the elbowing surge under the hoop to nail a Laker with a pinpoint pass, or rises from the floor as though projected to loop a lazy shot through the basket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Young Pro | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

...enough antlers can be accumulated and analyzed, British and U.S. scientists will be able to make rough maps of the distribution and intensity of fallout-at least in those areas where deer and elk still roam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Hot Antlers | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...absent, Castro's brass knuckles took over. His gunmen hijacked still another Cubana airliner, this time with seven U.S. nationals aboard, forced it to crash-land in Nipe Bay. Early reports put the dead at 17 of 20 passengers and crew. In the backlands where rebel bands roam more or less at will, candidates were terrorized. They could not make campaign speeches, shake hands, or get before the people in any fashion, except from the safety of heavily guarded TV stations. A few were shot down. In Oriente province, balloting was virtually impossible. In a frenzy of rage, Castro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Trappings of Election | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Powerless to Prevent. Japan's once-dreaded police today are circumscribed by so many restrictions, imposed in the name of civil rights, that they cannot even arrest a drunk until he hits someone. More than 450 gangs (with a membership of 12,000) roam the streets of Tokyo, and the police say they are powerless to take preventive action against them. Communist-led strikers and terrorists still control the northern town of Tomakomai (TIME, Oct. 20). In trying to do their duty, policemen, who can be haled before a Bureau of Human Rights for abusing their powers, now take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Policemen's Lot | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

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