The TIME Magazine Vault

Aug. 3, 1981

The Royal Wedding

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In the Heat of the Night at 50

When the award-winning film In the Heat of the Night was released in August of 1967, TIME called it a "subtle and meticulously observed study" starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger. "[The film] has shown, furthermore, that men can join hands out of fear and hatred and shape from base emotions something identifiable as a kind of love," the reviewer noted. "In this he is immeasurably helped by performances from Steiger and Poitier that break brilliantly with black-white stereotype."

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Aug. 1, 2005

Voices of Hiroshima

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Celebrating Friendship

The perks of friendship are many—a fact worth remembering on the International Day of Friendship, on July 30. And that goes for humans and animals alike, as TIME explored in a 2012 feature. "However widespread animal friendship is, it is changing our assumptions about how nonhuman societies work," the article noted. "It could also change the way we think about our friendships—and even about our health. It's well established that having close friends can contribute to a longer life and a lower incidence of disease, but it's never been easy to establish why. Studies of animals might provide some answers. Even before that work is done, though, one thing is clear: humans have always known that it's hard to get through life without friends, and it appears that animals are wise to that secret too."

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July 28, 1947