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...with them. From now on, Kasavubu added in a pointed reference to Lumumba, all foreigners should deal only with the new 28-man High Commission Mobutu had installed as temporary rulers of the Congo. The High Commissioners themselves called a press conference to criticize Nkrumah's efforts to steer Lu mumba: "We denounce colonization of African countries by Africans!'' shouted one Commissioner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: The Hand of Kwame | 10/10/1960 | See Source »

Nathan arrives at work by 4 a.m. every summer day to taste each batch of raw hot dogs. His formula: garlic, paprika and top-grade steer meat so lean that it will not pop the hot dog open when it is grilled - all encased in sheep membrane to give the dog just the right snap when bitten. When an upstate member of the New York state senate once derided a bill as being "as old and wrinkled as a warmed-over Coney Island hot dog," Nathan's indignantly fired off a batch of hot dogs to the state capital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RECREATION: Top Dog | 8/29/1960 | See Source »

...loving co-Favorite Chichester packed his 39^-ft. Gipsy Moth III with potatoes, tomato soup, baked beans, wine, beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean liner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Casual Wager | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

...Warned the West to keep "hands off the Republic of the Congo." What the U.S. had done to provoke this outburst was steer through the United Nations Security Council a resolution to send to the Congo-at the urgent request of the Congolese government-a U.N. police force to help restore order; the U.S.also planned to send planeloads of food for both Congolese and terrified Belgians (see FOREIGN NEWS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Cold War Goes On | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

...Grand Panjandrum of inertial guidance. Early in World War II, Draper became convinced that bombsights could be made enormously more accurate by stabilizing them with improved gyroscopes. When long-range missiles came into the picture after the war, Draper and his M.I.T. group began developing gyroscopic instruments to steer the rockets through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Inertial Brains | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

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