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Norman Thomas and TIME. But for 25 years "the cleanest sword of Europe" (as Petain called him) has been the same, without ambassadors, United Nations, and economic help. And now, when he is 72, our only problem is to find another competent statesman to follow his path and shun the ways of some sticky Westerners. Meanwhile, the U.S. in it's own interest should wish us good luck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 14, 1965 | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

...Couch Canyon" and "Libido Lane" houses most of the city's 198 psychiatrists, or approximately one to every 166 residents (compared with the national average of one per 1,100). There is no heavy industry and no effort to attract any. There are 22 banks, nine hotels, the cleanest jail in the county, and a chamber of commerce that couldn't care less. There are 65 acres of parks and playgrounds but no pool hall; a fencing academy but no laundromat or bowling alley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Suburbs: Middle-Aged Myth | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

...odiferous river carries an immense amount of sewage, industrial wastes, and garbage. The rumor is wrong. The engineers at the Massachusetts Public Health laboratories have found that the Charles, even by national standards, is quite clean. In fact, MPH engineers consider the Charles one of the state's cleanest small rivers...

Author: By Grant M. Ujifusa, | Title: Flow Sweetly, Charles | 10/21/1963 | See Source »

...Cleanest Lab. Though test explosions in distant space would be both difficult and expensive, scientists say they have extremely important advantages. "Outer space," says Dr. Richard F. Taschek, head of Los Alamos' Physics Division, "is probably the cleanest possible laboratory for testing bombs." There is no matter around to falsify results, and all effects of an explosion can be measured with great uniformity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Policing the Big Beat | 8/9/1963 | See Source »

Three in One. But the neatest, cleanest way to kill a specific segment of tissue in a living body is by rapid deep-freezing. Dr. Cooper's newest technique, used in almost 200 cases in the past year, is to put the patient on the operating table under a battery of X-ray machines. Using a local anesthetic, he saws out a dime-sized piece of the skull, then inserts a three-in-one tube, only 2 mm. (less than 1½ in.) in diameter. The tube slips painlessly through the insensitive brain to the deep-lying thalamus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Freezing for Parkinson's | 7/6/1962 | See Source »

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