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Fatal Humiliation. Among half a dozen other gangland obituaries in the past year, the boys also recall the somber fate of Murray ("The Camel") Humphreys, a gangland fixer who could smooth out any legal or political hump-and leave no tracks at all in the underworld sand. When he also was called before a grand jury, The Camel lost his cool. Rather than land in jail for silence or six feet under for talking, he lied-so ineffectually that he was hauled in on a perjury charge. That night, out on bail and back in his Marina City Towers suite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Rest Is Silence | 12/24/1965 | See Source »

...Ranh out of scrub and sand dunes in 66 days, the companies built the airstrip with a material that had been used only experimentally in the U.S. before it came to Viet Nam: a thin, interlocking and sandwiched aluminum plate called AM2. The airstrip came out as smooth and as strong as a cement field-which would have taken eight months to construct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Construction: Giant Venture in Viet Nam | 12/17/1965 | See Source »

...state that counts tourism as its No. 1 business, it seemed only good politics when Florida's popular Governor Haydon Burns proposed a $300 million road-widening program last spring. Democrat Burns, 53, a former mayor of Jacksonville whose snappy dress and smooth talk have earned him the nickname "Slick," campaigned all over the state for the issue, acknowledging that his political prestige was at stake. Last month, in the wake of a Tampa Tribune report that the Gov ernor had requested $250,000 from contractors to ballyhoo the road pro gram, Florida's voters rejected the bond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Florida: Detour to Tallahassee? | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

...area of contact between the two metals. The "seizure" that results is as effective as a weld. Even machining is difficult. When a steel cutting tool is used on stainless steel or titanium, it sticks to the piece it is shaping and cuts out rough chunks instead of smooth chips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Metallurgy: Oil from the Medicine Cabinet | 12/3/1965 | See Source »

This year, Pickett seems to have the material. He has Ed Franquemont at 153 pounds, a smooth, sly junior who lost only one match last year, finished third in the Eastern Intercollegiates, and was by far the team's best wrestler...

Author: By Lee H. Simowitz, | Title: Matmen May Be Title-Bound If... | 11/30/1965 | See Source »

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