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...Watch it," warned an angry Harold Wilson in a closed-door meeting last week. "Every dog is allowed one bite. But a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. Its license might not be renewed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: Wilson Barks Back | 3/10/1967 | See Source »

...reality, MacBird is a mangy little terrier of a satire, nipping at the trouser cuffs of the mighty. Its bark is its bite. Holier than thou in its complacency and self-indulgently assured of how In-funny it is, MacBird is an off-campus transplant of college humor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Mangy Terrier | 3/3/1967 | See Source »

...declined 7% last year v. a 1.2% drop for capital gains-type funds and a 2.8% decline for growth funds. The participants scarcely mind. They range from moguls down to Sears, Roebuck employees retiring with large blocs of stock, and they are mostly interested in postponing that capital-gains bite while diversifying under professional management...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wall Street: A Stop to the Swap? | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...elusive, bittersweet quality that gives bite to the blues, soulin' is a Rawls specialty. His style is all his own. Drawing from a mixed bag of songs, he improvises effortlessly within a three-octave range, spiraling up to a keening, gospel wail, then swooping down to a gritty, resonant bottom. Betwixt and between, he intersperses rhythmic lick-ety-split soliloquies. He will lead into Streetcorner Hustler's Blues, for example, by telling of a two-timing hippie who pleads with his knife-wielding wife to take his white-on-white Cadillac "butjustdon'tcutmynewsuit'causeljustgotit outofthepawnshopandlgottohavemy-frontsolcankeepmakingmygame...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Soulin' & Sweet-Talkin' | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

Immediate first aid for snake bite still consists of applying a tourniquet between the wound and the heart-slack enough, says Dr. Snyder, for a finger to pass between the bandage and the limb. Then a dash to the hospital, where antivenom is given after the surgery. If a hunter is hours away from a hospital, he may even be able to perform the emergency surgery himself, because snake venom acts as a mild local anesthetic and leaves the bite area numb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toxicology: Cutting Out Snake Bite | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

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