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Other countries are emphasizing defensive measures. Israel, widely assumed to possess a chemical arsenal, has purchased gas masks for its entire civilian population of 4.2 million and stored them throughout the country. The Israeli army medical corps has developed an injection that neutralizes gases. The investment in time and money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chemical Warfare | 8/22/1988 | See Source »

Like Cranko, Tetley pushes his dancers to outer limits, interweaving distended limbs and torsos in intricate patterns. Ballerinas jet up like natural gey sers in grandiose one-handed lifts, only to plummet a moment later in balletic kamikaze dives. This is not orthodox story ballet. But the choreography is fluent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Stuttgart Metroliner | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

Yet neither side wore holes in its trou sers. Neither Rusk nor his adversaries, who now dominate the 19-man committee, had new ideas to offer. The handful of members who still support the Administration could do little more than deal in cliches-including the threat of "monolithic" Communism as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congress: Standoff | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

A period comedy laid in Wilmington, Del. in 1890, it concerns a middle-class father of eight with advanced views. Horace Pennypacker is a freethinker who wears knickerbockers rather than trou sers, and belongs to societies espousing Darwin and dedicated to persuading Bernard Shaw to visit America. He also, it...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 11, 1954 | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

The staff of Stars & Stripes operates out of three rented rooms in the cavernous interior of the London Times citadel off the Thames embankment. The presses of the Thunderer now print Stars & Stripes -much to the Times's befuddlement. Like all U.S. journalists, S & Sers work in their shirtsleeves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Daily Stars & Stripes | 11/9/1942 | See Source »

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