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From the refugee camps, and from universities that are often staffed with zealous Palestinian professors, come a steady stream of several hundred recruits a month-more, in fact, than El Fatah can handle. It accepts Palestinians for the most part, and only those who pass rigorous medical tests and an examination by a team of psychiatrists. A recruit must also pass a final, brutal test of fortitude. He is handed a large box containing the body of a newly killed dog, still bleeding profusely. As the blood seeps out, he is told, "Inside this box is a wounded comrade. Take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Training for Terror | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

Like electrical current pulsing through a wire, the stream of electrons produces a rapidly expanding electromagnetic field-the EMP. Just as a moving magnetic field induces currents in the wires of a generator, the expanding EMP produces powerful currents in any electrical conductor it crosses. At considerable distances from the blast, these induced currents are strong enough to blow fuses or melt wiring and other metallic components in ground installations and aircraft. They would probably have the same effect on a missile's guidance and firing systems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nuclear Weapons: The Danger of EMP | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

...they are demanding taskmasters. Insatiable gluttons, they need a stream of billions of data to fill their maw. Their hunger for constant attention has caused the development of time-sharing systems that will let as many as 300 servants work for them simultaneously...

Author: By Anne DE Saint phalle, | Title: If What We Say Is What We Mean..... Then Who Means What the Computer Says? | 11/20/1968 | See Source »

...give the kids a feeling of knowing what everyone else knows." Similarly, Dr. Richard Kenyon, an official of the American Chemical Society in Washington, reclaimed his set after two years' banishment. "If you are without it these days, you are a little too out of touch with the stream of modern life," he says. Abe Wollock, an associate professor of theater arts at U.C.L.A., insists that TV for the most part is scarcely an adult intellectual challenge. But he is also persuaded that "wisdom and knowledge have always come through the visual sense. When a man throws...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Audience: The Videophobes | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

Rachel, Rachel--Paul Newman tries his hand at directing and at stream-of-consciousness, with basically good results. At the MUSIC HALL, Tremont St. near Stuart...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movies and Plays This Weekend | 11/8/1968 | See Source »

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