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Descended from a long line of scholars headed by his great-grandfather, who was president of Harvard and editor of the five-foot shelf, Eliot ignores headlines and the cold war and makes his study nature. What he finds-from the eagle-hung abyss below Delphi to the song of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Escape Hatch | 12/14/1962 | See Source »

Russian-supplied MIG jet fighters zoomed low over Djkarta last week as Indonesia's military might assembled for Armed Forces Day. In the harbor below steamed Indonesia's newest warship, the Russian-built cruiser Irian. Through the streets drove marines in Soviet amphibious troop carriers and a battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Sukarno's Army | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

The main problem of lakemaking in arid areas is not in getting the water-it is almost always to be had by deep drilling -but in holding it. The new solution is a lake lining of seepage-proof polyethylene plastic only six millimeters thick (asphalt and clay break up under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Lakemakers | 10/12/1962 | See Source »

∙California's state board of education urges schools to combat de facto segregation "with the full thrust of our legal authority and moral leadership." Resisting this stand, San Francisco's School Superintendent Harold Spears announced last June that he could see "no educationally sound program to eliminate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Should All Northern Schools Be Integrated? | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

it's the end of decent schools in that area." Warned the San Francisco Chronicle: "This city is drifting toward a fully segregated black-and-white school system." Under this pressure. Superintendent Spears a fortnight ago backed down, killed the planned new district.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Should All Northern Schools Be Integrated? | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

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