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...Most expensive boat is Stephens' 50-ft. twin-diesel yacht, which sleeps ten, has two heads and a shower, and an all-electric galley. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Leisure: Boats Ahoy | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...proud Samuel Bernstein ("You don't expect your child to be a Moses, a Maimonides, a Leonard Bernstein") listened misty-eyed, Lenny launched into his own expanded version of a fragment of Jewish liturgical music entitled Meditations on a Prayerful Theme My Father Sang in the Shower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 19, 1962 | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

...shooting grounds, Bikini and Eniwetok in the Pacific's Marshall Islands, are physically too tiny and politically too touchy for modern megatomics. Some 1,000 Micronesians live within 200 miles of Eniwetok, more than 10,000 within 600 miles. They remember the radioactive shower that fell on Rongelap, 100 miles east of Eniwetok, after a meteorological miscalculation in a 1954 U.S. test. The island's 82 inhabitants had to be quarantined on another island for 3½ years before their home was considered safe. Twenty-three Japanese fishermen in the trawler Lucky Dragon suffered radioactive burns. Since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: Test Quest | 1/5/1962 | See Source »

...Rico," he said into the inevitable microphones, "serves as an admirable bridge between Latin America and North America. You have served to make it easier for us to understand each other." Along the ten-mile route into San Juan, 200,000 lined the streets to cheer, toss streamers and shower confetti. Proclaimed the banners: "Welcome, Uncle Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: More Than Good Neighbors | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

Tshombe left his pink and white stucco residence to tour the shattered wards of Prince Leopold Hospital, stopping to offer sympathy and thanks to the wounded. Said he: "Your wounds are not in vain." Then he made his last-ditch tom-tom appeal to his warriors: "Poisoned arrows will shower on our opponents; each onusien [U.N. soldier] will be a corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: The Heart of Darkness | 12/22/1961 | See Source »

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