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...most delightful creatures the earth has ever seen, in sofar as it is a question of a hurt swallow or a round of golf, but as soon as it is a question of commerce, the mild gentleman may be come a terrible and stubborn clog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 21, 1962 | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

...Nashville, Negro students continued to clog ticket-window lines as they besieged segregated movie houses for the third straight week without success, but were surprised to receive courteous service for the first time at a bus-station restaurant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: To the Jails | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...Little Motor), Fanfani has, in addition to his Christian Democrats, the pledged support of three center parties, the Saragat Socialists, Liberals, and Republicans, ensuring him a majority in both the Senate and Chamber of Deputies without the help of the neoFascists. But any one of the supporting parties could clog up Il Motorino's gas line should he show any of the leftist economic notions or excessive Catholic zeal that have toppled his governments in the past. A major clause in the coalition agreement negotiated by Fanfani provides that if any one of the minority parties withdraws its support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Il Motorino | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

...whose regime is one of Africa's most authoritarian. But the Lion of Judah had worked hard to make his capital presentable. The girls who staff the city's 5,000 bordellos were ordered not to call to passing delegates. Wandering cows and insistent beggars who normally clog the streets were hustled out of town. Haile Selassie also arranged to keep from delegates the nasty story of the massacre at the town of Yirga-Alam last March, when his police shot down hundreds of peasants who revolted against their feudal landlords...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Disunity in Addis | 7/4/1960 | See Source »

...treatment, which has been tested on 2,000 patients for as long as two years, will be men in the middle and upper age ranges. Women enjoy natural protection through their sex hormones or estrogens against the worst ravages of atherosclerosis, in which cholesterol and related fatty substances clog the arterial tubes. Triparanol synthesized by Merrell, is such close kin to female sex hormones that it has been whimsically dubbed a "nonestrogenic estrogen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cutting the Cholesterol | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

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