Brazil: The Law of the Favelas
COURT CASES — May 08

Brazil: The Law of the Favelas

Rio de Janeiro's favelas are the dregs of a city, teeming slums where the crime rate makes Har...

CRIME: Most Dangerous Man Alive
CELEB COUPLES — May 08

CRIME: Most Dangerous Man Alive

When a big car driven by a droop-cheeked, mild-eyed man bunted another last week in St. Joseph, Mic...

Books: Mountain People - TIME
AGRICULTURE — May 08

Books: Mountain People - TIME

RIVER OF EARTH—James Still—Vikinq ($2.50). A sense of what is fitting, in the best meaning of th...

Medicine: Easy Death - TIME
AUTOMOTIVE — May 08

Medicine: Easy Death - TIME

In an attempt to take an informal poll on the question of easy death, the Sunday Forum of the Akron,...

GERMANY: Goebbels Up - TIME
AUTOMOTIVE — May 08

GERMANY: Goebbels Up - TIME

Though his most implacable enemies admit his genius as a propaganda technician, few people in Germa...

U.S. At War: Globaloney - TIME
COURT CASES — May 08

U.S. At War: Globaloney - TIME

It was the drag end of a dreary, routine day. In the House chamber, up rose Connecticut's fres...

Small Wonders - TIME
INTERNATIONAL HEADLINES — May 08

Small Wonders - TIME

When he was nearly three years old, Nguyen Ngoc Truong Son would watch his mother a...

The Fall of the Supermodel
VIEWPOINTS — May 08

The Fall of the Supermodel

They ruled for a decade, but now the Super Six are giving glamour away to actresses and gangly teens...

Business: Classy Rings - TIME
AGRICULTURE — May 08

Business: Classy Rings - TIME

Some cheaper sentimentWest Point cadets started the practice of wearing gold class rings in 1835. Bu...

Movies: Indian Bummer - TIME
TRANSPORTATION — May 08

Movies: Indian Bummer - TIME

The director of Bend It Like Beckham redoes Jane Austen as a Bollywood musical. Now for the bad news...

People: Jun. 2, 1961 - TIME
AUTOMOTIVE — May 08

People: Jun. 2, 1961 - TIME

Baggy-eyed from a whirl of trips to Bangkok, New Delhi, Ankara, Oslo and Geneva, Secretary of State ...