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Nationally speaking, most farmers are not that foolhardy-if only because they may continue to need help to extricate themselves from the contradictory kind of help that now holds them like a solicitous boa constrictor. But city dwellers and farmers alike should realize that every clay the present program continues-to the tune of $5 billion a year-the situation is going to get worse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: THE $5 BILLION FARM SCANDAL Every Day In Every Way It Gets Worse | 8/19/1957 | See Source »

...City Hall reporter for the New York World-Telegram, then, 2½ years ago, joined NBC's Manhattan station WRCA to become its first roving radio-TV reporter. "I've covered everything from the Andrea Doria sinking to the catching of a boa constrictor in a Bronx supermarket," says Pressman, who packs a 20-lb. tape recorder as habitually as a city room legman packs a batch of copy paper. "I'm not out to prove I'm superman but to show there's a need in radio and television for on-the-spot coverage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Shoe-Leather Man | 3/11/1957 | See Source »

...List. In Thurmont, Md., burglars broke into Gordon P. Gaver's snake farm, made off with a king snake, a grey rat snake, two corn snakes, a five-foot boa constrictor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 12, 1954 | 4/12/1954 | See Source »

...stolen. Chekhov's Russian undressing achieves its full flavor after the gallant musician, clad only in a top hat, starts to take the beauty home in his double-bass case and loses her. Eventually, the encased beauty is released in the midst of a musical soiree. In "Boa Constrictor and Rabbit," an expert tells how to seduce a married woman with patience, distance, praise and the inadvertent complicity of the husband. Czarist censors banned this story as immoral, which drove Chekhov to retort: "I have formed ... a Society for the Promotion of Cuckoldry, [and] have been elected president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Russian Fun & Futility | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...showed their belief in his continuing an tipathy for Moscow by granting Tito's regime another $8,400,000 in aid. It is a fact, however, that Tito's ranks are heavily populated with rugged, old-line Communists who, while not favoring a return to the boa-constrictor embrace of the Kremlin, resent any straying from the steely dialectics of true Communism, and distrust anything but opportunistic relations with the West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: The Man in the Dock | 1/25/1954 | See Source »

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