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...Beset by a city-wide rise in food poisoning and mouse-nibbled documents in the Supreme Court, Melbourne health authorities have ordered all-out war on the city's mice. "Even pet mice must go," decreed Dr. Adrian Palmieri, the city's senior district health officer. "They breed like the rest and will mate with wild mice if they get the chance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUSTRALIA: The Mice That Roared | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

...auctions all over Europe, as many as half of the choicest items are being bought by people who never showed their faces a few years ago. As the American tourist surge is beginning to level off, Europeans are bringing out their stale stories about rich Texans for a new breed of foreigners-the Japanese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: New Americans for Europe | 8/13/1973 | See Source »

Everybody else is the public. The public is of a different breed than the natives. It is made of outsiders, invaders, barred access to the club lest they overrun it. But this is no motley ball-park public. It is a public with money, or at least with pretensions to it. The men wear Fred Perry sportshirts and the women have tennis tans. They have come, not just to see the pros, but to see Longwood, and to mix with...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: Winner Take All | 8/2/1973 | See Source »

...nomenclatural possibilities seem irresistible: "Cattalo," after an 1880s progenitor; "bisontennial," to commemorate the nation's forthcoming 200th birthday; or perhaps "beefalo." Basolo is leaning, understandably, toward calling his breed "Basolo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Have a Slice of Roast Beefalo | 7/9/1973 | See Source »

There is also another, more comfort-conscious breed of camper who disdains any real communing with nature. These refugees from city and suburb seek not spartan solitude but gregarious luxury-at reasonable prices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Roughing It the Easy Way | 7/2/1973 | See Source »

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