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...course," Agudelo says, "people were terrified, since it was the first time they had ever heard a loudspeaker." But they turned out, 1,500 strong, to see a Walt Disney health film projected on the cleanest whitewashed wall that Agudelo could find. The villagers heard more about the inoculations at Mass: el señor cura read a "spot" announcement written for him by Agudelo, saying the inoculations were a good thing. In school, the teachers said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lifesaving Stings | 2/2/1953 | See Source »

...mining town. Its 300 miners' cottages, owned by the Blue Diamond Coal Co., are neat and attractive, and set in their own plots. Royal Blue has one of the county's biggest schools, a well-stocked company store, and a reputation as one of the healthiest and cleanest mining towns in the U.S. But last week the mine was closed down for good. For the town it was a death sentence, since Blue Diamond's Royal Blue is the only employer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Union Blues | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...Southern state in which Stevenson is in greatest peril. In 1948, Virginia voted 41.4% Republican, plus 10.4% Dixiecrat. Eisenhower is far more popular than Dewey was in 1948, but Stevenson is more popular than Truman was. Leaders of the Byrd machine, one of the most effective (and cleanest) in the U.S., have agreed to disagree in the 1952 election. Some are working for Stevenson, some for Ike and some are following the example of the boss, Senator Harry F. Byrd, who is "picking apples" and not saying how he will vote. If Byrd comes out strongly for either side...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SOUTH: Different This Year | 10/13/1952 | See Source »

...freshmen on the clean and narrow track, Lampy inaugurated a new 'clean humor policy' with its freshman issue. "To say that the Lampoon is about to reform is not quite the story," President F. H. Nichols '24 said, "for I think that the Lampoon has always been the cleanest of college comics. There have been. however, occasional lapses...

Author: By David C.D. Rogers, | Title: Riots, Mental Telepathy, Exams and Probation Among Vivid Memories of 1927's Initial Years | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

...community now, instead of a human dump heap. Though the population has increased by more than 100%, the lepers are well housed and well fed, with a library, two schools, a nursery, weekly dances, movies and an elected government which Father Hofstee (a man not without humor) calls "the cleanest in the country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Lepers of Tala | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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