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Kohman therefore argues that tektites must come from foreign stars. During their long journeys through interstellar space, the feeble gravitational attraction between individual particles would have plenty of time to bring them all together in a tight cluster, like a bagful of marbles. As the cluster shoots into the solar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Detecting Tektites | 8/4/1958 | See Source »

Cold Turkey. "About the only sure way to stop this stuff is to set your store up in a nudist colony," said a Seattle superman, by now suspicious of just about any housewife who carries a big handbag, wears full skirts or wraps up in a fur coat on a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: The Shoplifters | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

In 1955 Holland saw a first novel by a Dutch lady of 67. Her writer's stock in trade was elementary-just a bagful of old memories. Yet with them she managed to fashion a book whose style owes nothing to other writers, whose substance is the stuff of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What an Old Lady Knows | 3/3/1958 | See Source »

The one place in the U.S. where a bagful of tranquilizing drugs was most urgently needed last week was the National Institute of Mental Health at Bethesda, Md.-and more for the staff than for the 45 patients.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychiatrist, Calm Thyself | 5/13/1957 | See Source »

Lay-Away Plan. In Culver City, Calif., arrested with a bagful of shoplifted clothes, Dolores June King and Vivian Eggert, expectant mothers, told police: "We are going to the hospital next month to have our babies and we wanted to look nice."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 21, 1956 | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

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