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TIME Correspondent Philip Payne, after journeying by mule into the war-torn territory east of Bogota, last week cabled an account of the ordeal of a village...
...Convictions. Barker's hero, who is nameless, is a young writer of 19 who has just been married to a girl three years older. His senses still swim in an adolescent daydream of genius. When he looks out of a window, he can envision a little girl being torn to pieces by archangels, but he can neither face the plain reality of his wife's pregnancy, nor meet a man's emotional and spiritual responsibilities in his marriage...
About 2½ billion years ago, a ball of whirling gases, intensely hot and rushing through the black spaces of the universe at immense speed, gradually became the earth. At one point, a great chunk of earthly substance was torn away-and the earth had a moon. The atmosphere developed, then came countless years of rain, filling in great gaps on the earth's surface. Thus the oceans were born...
...that era, New Yorker managing editors had a life expectancy hardly greater than that of May flies. In addition to hiring & firing managing editors, Ross was combating his restlessness by having the office walls torn down. The editorial floor was cluttered with scaffolding; workmen bashed out plaster and lath with sledge hammers and crowbars; a chalky haze permeated the halls, assailing-the lungs of staff and visiting contributors...
...place in the Pentagon is more closely guarded than the Joint Chiefs' area. The original wall-boarding has been torn out and replaced with sheet steel. Somewhere in this area, its exact location secret, is the J.C.S. War Room. Entrance is through double steel doors operated by buzzers. For swift communication the Chiefs use one of the Pentagon's telecon rooms, where incoming messages are decoded and flashed on a glass screen and the outgoing replies appear on another screen beside them. Four-way conversations can thus be carried on with points as far apart as Tokyo, London...