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...just one more budget dreadful from the monster mill operated by Producer William Castle (Macabre, The Tingler). From here on, it turns into a wonderfully wacky game of you-stab-my-back-and-ril-stab-yours. Uncle strikes first. One dark night he hypnotizes the boy-Barnaby shakes the spell on the brink of a 100-ft. precipice. Barnaby strikes back with some toxic toadstools-Uncle precautiously checks the mushroom sauce. Uncle surrounds Barnaby and Chrissie with a wall of fire-rain puts the fire out. Barnaby plops a tarantula on Uncle's chest-the spider falls happily asleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Nepoticide v. Avunculicide | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

Inside one of the red-brick buildings, a classroom door is marked "typing class." Underneath the sign, on a piece of heavy yellow-white paper, some raised dots spell "typing class" in Braille. A blind student writes on a Perkins Brailler, a six-key typewriter designed at the school 15 years ago. She types each Braille character by pressing a combination of keys at the same time, Key number one, for example, is the letter "a." Keys one and two together are the letter...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Ringing Lights: Visit to Perkins | 12/1/1966 | See Source »

...limelight to a G.O.P. novice, Norbert ("Nobby") Tiemann, 42, himself a Kennedy-handsome, 6-ft. 3-in. banker from Wasau (pop. 724). An unknown nine months ago, Tiemann stumped the state shaking every outstretched hand, put across his German name with the slogan: "Tiemann. . . Nebraska's Way to Spell Governor." He won by 101,586 votes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Midwest: Heartland Recaptured | 11/18/1966 | See Source »

...Gromyko-who have urged the U.S. to offer a specific timetable for withdrawal of its forces from Viet Nam as a possible prelude to negotiations. When Gromyko talked with Johnson in Washington last month, he declared: "You've got to be more precise. You've got to spell it out more than Ambassador Goldberg did in the United Nations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Presidency: Protecting the Flank | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

...general rather than specific. The voters are prey to a variety of frustrations-about the state of the economy, the progress of civil rights, the course of the war in Viet Nam. While each of these issues can cut either way, depending on the particular contest, overall they may spell trouble for the party in power. On the Viet Nam issue, in fact, the voter who feels that the war effort has not been vigorous enough, as well as one who feels that the U.S. should stop bombing and work harder for peace, could both wind up voting against...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Campaign: A Question of How Big | 11/4/1966 | See Source »

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