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Turk's Private War. The cops pulled their prey into daylight and eyed him warily. "Have you a gun?" one asked. The man coyly examined himself, peeked inside his undershirt with a smile. "No," he said. The cops let their man dress and breakfast on ham & eggs, then carted him off triumphantly to Amsterdam. At last they had captured the notorious Captain Raymond ("Turk") Westerling, international buccaneer and soldier of misfortune...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Buccaneer | 4/28/1952 | See Source »

Harvard students will lose an hour's sleep tonight. Eastern Daylight Saving Time will move all clocks ahead an hour at 2 a.m. Sunday morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Daylight Saving Time | 4/26/1952 | See Source »

Public spirited Bostonians rescued the embryonic Observatory from obscurity, however. In March 1843, the appearance of a bright daylight comet aroused popular interest so that the present Observatory has often been spoken of as being "born of a comet." Funds were raised for a telescope that was to be second to none than operating...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shapley Reign Spurs Observatory To Lead World in Research | 4/12/1952 | See Source »

...people have swarmed into Rio looking for a better life than they had in the provinces. Many of them ended up in shantytowns. Today the favelados number an estimated 500,000, about three-fourths of them Negroes. Rio's cops, tough as they are, avoid favelas even by daylight. "As a sanctuary for criminals," said the newspaper O Globo, "the favelas are as inviolate as the ancient temples. The law . . . stops at the base of the hill, as if it were the frontier of a foreign country." Cariocas fear favela-bred epidemics of disease and crime, but they fear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: The Human Anthills | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

...weather station. Then he convinced Major General William D. Old that it was time to organize Project Icicle. The time to land on T3, they decided, was shortly after mid-March. The earth would be tilted properly on its axis and they would have the benefit of 24-hour daylight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Arctic Outpost | 3/31/1952 | See Source »

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