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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Secret World | 11/23/1959 | See Source »

...future looked good, Birrell thought. "The big problem in Brazil is to select which opportunity you want to concentrate on. It's like being a hungry kid in a candy store. You don't know which box to pick from." Take castor oil: "It is the only lubricant for cosmic travel. That's what they call it-cosmic travel. A man wants to talk business with me. It has an incredible future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Gay Victim | 11/16/1959 | See Source »

WILLIAM N. CASTOR...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...most amusing speech of the evening came as Dutch Holland of the Red Cross gave Ulen a citation and medal for his many years as an instructor of life-saving. He recalled Ulen's old habit of giving his swimmers a potion resembling castor oil before each race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimming Team Fetes Ulen | 4/21/1959 | See Source »

...with a cacophony of piercing noises and incredible high-frequency sounds, also shut into a dark, soundproof room for three hours to measure his adaptability to isolation. Before, during, and after these tests came perhaps the most thorough physical examinations ever devised-plus a total of three doses of castor oil, five enemas. Which was the worst part of the tests? Answered one Astronaut, Marine Lieut. Colonel John Glenn: "If you figure out how many openings there are in the human body, and how far you can go into any one of them, you can answer which would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPACE: Rendezvous with Destiny | 4/20/1959 | See Source »

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