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Greatest variation is in the accompanying rites. Among some tribes curare is prepared by old women; in a few the witch doctor has a monopoly of the business, but usually all the wise old men get together to brew a batch. A widespread restriction is that the curare-makers shall operate in an isolated part of the forest; often they are required to refrain from sexual intercourse while a batch is being run, and women may be kept at a distance. In some tribes the work must be finished before the sun reaches the zenith (or interrupted then). Many refuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mysteries of Curare | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

Pete Reider will have his hands full in both the mile and the two-mile, for Rod Zwirner of Princeton has beaten him in both. In the mile, there is an outside chance that Dartmouth's Doug Brew could scramble the picture, if he deides to double with the 880. Zwirner, Reider, and Brown's Ed Sullivan are the top three in the two-mile...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Crimson, Yale, Cornell Appear Equal in Heps | 5/17/1957 | See Source »

Actually, the kitchen procedures have a rough similarity in both coffee houses. Besides an old stove and some silexes, the Capriccio boasts an expresso steam percolator for its Italian coffee. As Wilson watched his brew jet out of this continental loking apparatus, and surveyed his bubbling silexes, he noted that up the street they run everything through...

Author: By Charles S. Mater, | Title: The Coffee Trade | 5/15/1957 | See Source »

...Have you, too, been bamboozled by American ballyhoo?" asked London's left-wing People under the headline: TAKE A GOOD LOOK AT THE REAL AMERICA ! With this lead the Sunday People (circ. 4,948,215), which wallows weekly in a rich home-brew of slaughter, society scandal and police-court sex, last week decanted a bottle of sour-mash bamboozlement imported from the old colony across the Atlantic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Whee, the People! | 4/29/1957 | See Source »

Coming back less than an hour later, Brew made up a 10-yard deficit in the last 100 yards of the 880 to catch Jim Cairns at the wire. Brew and Cairns were both timed...

Author: By William C. Sigal, | Title: Crimson Power Downs Indians 88 1/2-51 1/2 to Open Track Season | 4/22/1957 | See Source »

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