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...horse won. Late editions of the Los Angeles Times featured a lead story documenting a less-than-earth-shaking expose of the low standards for scuba-diving instruction, and the Bismarck (N. Dak.) Tribune snagged readers with a seven-column head declaring: FEWER SPECIAL DEER PERMITS AVAILABLE. The Swing is a slightly manic but welcome return to normalcy after a grateful escape from the long hail of bulletins issuing from Washington. No news might even last long enough to become boring, though it would be imprudent, given the past decade or so, to count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: What's Up Front | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...Deer Park, Texas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 8, 1974 | 7/8/1974 | See Source »

Most of the Asiatic folk medicines sold in San Francisco's Chinatown are harmless. Sliced deer horn and powdered tiger penis, which believers in mystical medicine take to increase virility, are unlikely to hurt anything but the buyer's pocketbook. Neither are any of the 58 listed ingredients of another Chinatown favorite for aches and pains: ginseng rejuvenating pills, which are made in Hong Kong and contain such exotica as male mouse droppings, silkworm, rhinoceros horn, amber, turtle shell and myrrh. But this ancient Oriental panacea also contains an unlisted substance: the powerful Western painkiller phenylbutazone, a drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Deadly Pills | 6/17/1974 | See Source »

...whole culture to the crude denominator of bullion was especially ironic in view of the sheer multiplicity of use and image in pre-Columbian goldwork. No two figures are ever the same, and the range of imagery is as profuse as Colombian nature itself: alligators, jaguars, condors, deer, owls, lizards, macaws, and even hallucinogenic mushrooms. To the gaping Spaniards it seemed that anything, among these singular people, could be made of gold, from cooking pots to ceremonial masks and lime holders for coca chewing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gold of the Indians | 5/27/1974 | See Source »

...Southeast Asia, and hi those innocent times I wanted to be part of it." He went to Viet Nam in 1962 with one of the early U.S. groups trained in counterinsurgency. He learned the language of the Rhade, a major Montagnard tribe (the one portrayed in The Barking Deer), and some-tunes acted as an interpreter between Montagnards and Vietnamese. The Rhade culture fascinated Rubin, and the villagers' perilous exposure to the more "civilized" Americans and Vietnamese saddened him: "I could see as early as 1962 that the Montagnards' time was running out." That somber perception became...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Slice-of-Death | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

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