Word: swiftest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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AMONG the many Americans jolted into action by the Soviet spaceman was Boris Chaliapin, swiftest of TIME'S cover artists. Chaliapin, son of the great Russian basso, has painted some 330 covers for TIME since the summer of 1942, and usually allows himself three days to do a portrait, whether working from his own sketches or from photographs. His most recent feat was painting John XXIII, immediately after his elevation as Pope, in 24 hours for the Nov. 10, 1958 issue of TIME. Last week, when wakened at 8 a.m. on Wednesday and asked to paint Spaceman Gagarin...
Most in the Middle. Research in recent years has shown some fairly clear patterns about where anxiety develops. It is greatest where change is swiftest. Children are not very susceptible to it; their problems of adjustment are normal for their age (adolescents show confusing symptoms). Anxiety is most apparent in the 20-to-40 age group. These youngish adults may not suffer from it more than their elders, but they talk more about it. In any case, they are the most active and mobile members of society, constantly making decisions, changing jobs or moving to new locations. From...
...famine. They believe that the tender shoots and the seeds encourage a vast overbreeding of jungle rats. Once this food supply is exhausted, the rats-many as big as young house cats -assemble and, like a disciplined army, march across paddies and vegetable gardens, eating everything. The broadest and swiftest rivers do not deflect them; as if hypnotized, they plunge into the water, and if not drowned, emerge on the far shore, appetites sharpened...