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...hungry bugs' peculiar tastes blast week Research Director Alfred Champagnat of Société Française des Pétroles, a subsidiary of British Petroleum Co Ltd. announced that he has domesticated the oil eaters and that they are excellent food for both man and beast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Microbiology: The Oil Eaters | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

Some people can't resist giving drugs to everything they meet, as it known. But to give LSD to elephants is just too much. "It appears that the elephant is highly sensitive to the effects of LSD." Yes. What's left if the beast who naturally never forgets should have his consciousness freed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Flying Elephant | 12/12/1962 | See Source »

King Zor, Glass's most expensive toy this year, is a terrifying-looking, three-foot plastic dinosaur. Six plastic "prehistoric rocks" are loaded into Zor's back. The child then fires a dart gun at a red target on the beast's tail; a bull's-eye causes Zor to lunge toward the nursery-school St. George and launch one of his projectiles with a primordial roar. King Zor is already stirring up controversy among disapproving parents, who claim the toy teaches children combat. Glass disagrees, calls it a game of mechanized tag: "It is better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toys: Plastic Sugarplums | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...lack the dignity of the great beast, but he shares all of its innate mournfulness. His flappy ears droop dispiritedly. His baleful eyes are broody with hurt. His massive brow (receding hair) puckers with pain. He is the most excruciatingly funny anatomy of melancholy on Broadway. His wife has just told him that in advanced middle age, he is about to enter second fatherhood. Ford trumpets his dismay: "When he gets out of college, I'll be going on 83-if he's smart." Never Too Late is a one-gag all-night laugh show. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Life Begins at 60 | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...outpost has long subdued the beast with a Jeffersonian blend of what its citizens call "small town living and cosmopolitan thinking." Except for the five years that carpetbaggers closed it after the Civil War, the university has forged a freedom that makes it the conscience of North Carolina and the most enlightened state campus in the South...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: A Place for Purpose | 11/16/1962 | See Source »

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