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Headquarters City. New York is also the major port of entry into the U.S., and Idlewild-the busiest airport in the world -has become a kind of sub-city in itself. As large as all Manhattan from 42nd Street to the Battery, Idlewild has developed a range of consumer services that include banking, dentistry, photographic studios, and a $275,000 animal motel where bears can bed down for $2.50 a day, tigers for $5, bulls for $7 and wolves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The City: Doing Over the Town | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

...investigation of U.S. racial practices. To head off this vote, the Administration per suades a young Negro Congressman named Cullee Hamilton to propose a joint resolution on Capitol Hill that would apologize to Terrible Terry, grant Goroto $10 million in hush money, and to speed up integration. Subplots sub-subplots whirl around these two resolutions like so many errant satellites; the chapters stretch on and on. In the end, Congress adopts Hamilton's proposal, and the U.N., appeased by the act. turns the Panamanian's resolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Lode | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

...Arctic, arguing that it was not the forbidding land most people thought it was, but a habitable place, full of natural resources. He predicted air travel over the North Pole and submarine traffic under it, but whimsically reminded would-be explorers that if they were to survive in the sub-zero temperatures, they had to learn "to work like a dog and then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 7, 1962 | 9/7/1962 | See Source »

...Matthews Hall Common Room, there will be another informal meeting for Harvard Summer School students with members of the International Seminar. Maximo Solivan of the Phillipines will discuss any topic concerning Asia. Solivan is publisher and a columnist for the Manila Evening News. Sachchidanandaz Sahay, Acting Chief Sub-Editor of the Calcutta Statesman will talk on the "Press in India...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SUMMER NEWS BRIEFS | 8/2/1962 | See Source »

...Gobi desert. Unlike his metaphysical masterwork The Phenomenon of Man (TIME, Dec. 14. 1959) or his mystical treatise on The Divine Milieu (TIME, Feb. ID. 1961), Teilhard's letters are largely free of neologisms, contain wise and witty comments on a world he clearly loved, and clearly saw sub specie aeternitatis. A sampling of Teilhardisms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Pilgrim of the Future | 7/27/1962 | See Source »

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