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On Capitol Hill, the Byrnes view was more representative than Republican. For Kennedy's tax program is in dreadful legislative trouble. Congressmen are wary of the huge deficit that the program envisions-and the mail from home makes them even warier. Says one Congressman: "I haven't had...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taxes: Who Wants a Tax Cut? | 2/15/1963 | See Source »

A genial, 245-lb. defensive tackle for the Detroit Lions, Alex Karras, 27, was worried about those rumors that pro football players had been "shaving points" and associating with hoodlums. Alex decided to clear the air, and, fortified with indiscretion, taped a TV interview for NBC. He was sure that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jan. 25, 1963 | 1/25/1963 | See Source »

Though the Pavilion was devoted to showing modern science, it looked as if it could have been the setting from a poem by Coleridge. From any angle it cast a spell. It had reflecting pools, stage-set lighting, delicate bridges, six buildings decorated with Gothic tracery. Inside, it subtly lured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Road to Xanadu | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

Fate turns up in the form of a gorgeous 17-year-old bohemian named Charlotte, the daughter of Georgie's childhood love. Charlotte is a dreadful shock to everyone at Wellington College: they wear tweeds and say "homosexual''; she wears leotards and says "faggot." The scene in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grey Flannel Mortarboard | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

On the Water Wheel. In short, whites have made themselves the "victims of their own brainwashing." Baldwin fears that "this dishonored past will rise up soon to smite all of us . . .A bill is coming in that I fear America is not prepared to pay." The question of color is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Rainbow Sign | 1/4/1963 | See Source »

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