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His shooting eye sharpened up on duck, hare and pigeon, Britain's Prince Charles, 13, sighted in on a stag herded into close range by royal drovers, gently squeezed the trigger of his rifle and bagged the beast on the very first try. Jolly good, puffed proud Papa Philip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Oct. 5, 1962 | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

The key to the meaning of Barabbas can perhaps be found in the curious fact that bar abbas in Chaldeo-Aramaic means "the son of the father"; and in the paleo-Christian legend that Barabbas and Christ had the same first name: Jesus. It can therefore literally be said that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Dark Brother of Christ | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

There is no doubt about the impact of Silent Spring; it is a real shocker. Many unwary readers will be firmly convinced that most of the U.S.-with its animals, plants, soil, water and people-is already laced with poison that will soon start taking a dreadful toll, and that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: Pesticides: The Price for Progress | 9/28/1962 | See Source »

With bizarre hints and happenings (when Merricat orders a leg of lamb at the local store, the other customers gasp with horror) Miss Jackson tantalizingly builds up a picture of a household besieged by anger from without and fear from within. Creating a cross-rough of curiosity-backward in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Nightshade Must Fall | 9/21/1962 | See Source »

He was popular-next to Robert Frost, by far the most popular contemporary U.S. poet. He won prizes, including the 1957 Bollingen, America's highest award for poetry. He was delightfully unpredictable. There was Cummings the crazy syntactical iconoclast who rarely used capital letters and recklessly (often unintelligibly) strewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: E. E. Cummings: Poet of the Heart | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

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