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They look big enough to brain the butcher and turn their users into Lilliputians, but jumbo-sized needles, oil inch in diameter, are the biggest knitting news in years. Reason is that the big stitches they produce have cut the time it takes to knit a dress to six hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: The Big Stitch | 10/13/1967 | See Source »

When it enters the target, the flechette is stripped of an ablative coating that has protected the uranium from the 1000° F. temperature generated by air friction (solid uranium will ignite at 338° F.) As the bare depleted uranium comes in contact with steel, an exothermic, or heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons: Magic Bullet | 10/6/1967 | See Source »

Nothing is deader than yesteryear's fad, or so at least moan merchants who have been stuck with unsalable stocks of Yo-yos, Davy Crockett hats and Batman costumes. Until six weeks ago, the same could have been said of Hula Hoops, which in a profitable six months in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fads: And Now the Shoop Shoop | 9/29/1967 | See Source »

Yet even these theories do not wholly explain all UFO sightings. At Colorado, Physicist Condon and his staff have investigated new reports, sifted through past Blue Book and NICAP files, and begun a computer-aided analysis of 2,000 sightings. For the moment, Condon has narrowed the study down to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A FRESH LOOK AT FLYING SAUCERS | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

If one accepts the reality of vehicles from outer space, one must assume the existence in the universe of a race more intelligent than man-certainly not difficult to believe. (In fact, it is much harder to think that in all the universe man is the only advanced being.) Next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: A FRESH LOOK AT FLYING SAUCERS | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

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