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...CHICAGO FIRE. Half the West Side bursts into flame every 20 minutes, and who is it but Mrs. O'Leary there, coming out of the heat with an actual cow-trained to moo at crowds. Spectators are called upon to help firemen squirt the blaze from a hand-pump engine. Meanwhile, a cool operator in a fireproof booth turns up the hidden gas jets, then slowly turns them down as the fire subsides, leaving on view the pre-charred timbers of skeleton buildings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Bizneylcmd | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

...target through a long wire it trails behind. Three times the SS-11 was fired at the Benning show, and three times it scored a direct hit on a tank more than a mile away. At the third hit, Ike pushed his hat back, grinned and exclaimed: "Holy cow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Brave New Weapons | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

Under a searing sun, India's peasant plods endlessly behind his scrawny bullocks, scratching at the badly irrigated soil with tools of a thousand years ago. Most of his cow's dung cannot be used as fertilizer, for it is needed as fuel; his patch of land is tiny, and his life is mortgaged to the local moneylender or landlord. He has a deep distrust of foreigners' slick schemes for greater yields; yet the fate of all of India's 415 million depends on the stubborn peasant's ability to expand production. Six years from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Challenging Malthus | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...ball, they are proving themselves equally adept at flinging insults. The main target: veteran O'Brien, a haughty sort who makes no secret of the fact that he thinks himself king of the whales. O'Brien started the war of words when he called Nieder a "cow-pasture thrower" with "atrocious form." Nieder replied angrily, accusing O'Brien of fearing to face him in direct competition. Asked Nieder at one meet when O'Brien failed to show up: "Where's the Los Angeles dodger today?" Retorted O'Brien to Nieder's charges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Angry Whales | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The King and Queen of cow country, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, work out in a waterlogged rodeo. The Aquarodeo at Marineland, Calif. includes shark busting and shark roping, a bat ray roundup and bareback whale riding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 2, 1960 | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

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