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The Potomac River at Washington, D.C., is not exactly a hydroplaner's delight. Flowing through industrial flats and woodsy hills, on a bottom composed of two centuries of solidified human rubbish, it is often studded with beer cans, packing crates and half-submerged logs. Auxiliary coast guardsmen spent seven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Powerboat Racing: Fragile Sport | 7/1/1966 | See Source »

The U.S.'s newest heroes are scientists. Though inventors such as Eli Whitney, Edison or Bell have long been acknowledged, only Einstein among the pure scientists held a place in the U.S. consciousness until World War II. Today the roster would be long, studded with such names as Teller...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON THE DIFFICULTY OF BEING A CONTEMPORARY HERO | 6/24/1966 | See Source »

Claudia's death alarmed the Austrian countryside, sent village drummers and police loudspeaker cars through the vineyard-studded hills of southern Burgenland to alert the peasants to the danger. More to the point, a new eight-man Austro-Hungarian border commission called at the house of Claudia's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Austria: The Little Boxes | 5/20/1966 | See Source »

Alabama's white politicians do not underestimate the Negro's new force in politics. For the first time in memory, no Alabamian candidate cut loose in 1966 with the sterile race baiting that has studded political rhetoric in the South since Reconstruction. The new tone was heralded by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: A Corner Turned | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

Although he writes admiringly of the vast sums expended by Vanderbilts, Goulds and Morgans on yachts, castellated mansions, cotillions, fine libraries and blooded horses, Beebe concedes that for pure genius, nobody topped "Colonel" Ned Green, the spectacularly eccentric, wooden-legged, oversexed son of Hetty Green, the miserly "Witch of Wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moneyed Magnificoes | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

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