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Men, women and children, 40 in all, reined in. They checked the six asses carrying all their household goods. Puzzled, their chief approached the head of the six-man government team from Isfahan. "Who are you? What is all this about?" he asked. Beside his white tent, the government man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The East & the Needle | 6/4/1956 | See Source »

The Anglo-Stoic. Like his brothers, Ned was a dedicated ascetic. He never smoked, never touched liquor ("People are asses to drink such stuff"). Even of eating, he said: "To escape the humiliation of loading in food would bring one very near the angels." When Brother Frank was killed, Ned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Vanished Galahads | 8/30/1954 | See Source »

After the Hollywood experience, it was one good part after another in a series of better-than-average Italian films. But the higher, she goes, the harder Gina has to work. She and Mirko have formed three corporations to handle her career and investments, and they have permitted themselves only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollywood on the Tiber | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

By studying the well-kept cave dwellings, Perrot could form a pretty good idea of the lives and customs of the pre-Abraham Horites. They were farmers who got water from the bed of a nearby wadi and stored it in underground cisterns. They had sheep, cattle and dogs, but...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Today once again we live in a period of peril, far greater peril to my mind than many of us appear to realize. The prospect of the physical annihilation of all of Harvard is for the first time in our history a possibility that we must admit. The destruction of...

Author: By James B. Conant, | Title: The President's Concluding Report: A Summing-Up and a Glance Ahead | 1/24/1953 | See Source »

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