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Beyond all that, city dogs are supposed to repel burglars and muggers; high-crime areas now teem with Doberman pinschers and German shepherds. But who protects the innocent from the protectors? Last year Tokyo recorded about 5,000 complaints of dog bites from newsboys, mailmen, salesmen and bill collectors. New York's bite toll hit 25,000. Britons are so worried about rabies that they have barred all dogs and cats from entering the country. The isolation period for the pets now in quarantine under old laws has been extended from six months to a year. Rabies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Do Cities Really Need Dogs? | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...piastres in change for some cookies he had bought from her. He saw Americal Division troops pound sand into the mouth of an old man suspected of being a V.C. They poured water down his throat until he nearly drowned. When he still would not talk, they unleashed a Doberman war dog ?and watched the dog tear the man from head to belly. Then they left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: MY LAI: AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY | 12/5/1969 | See Source »

Still groggy, John shaved, dressed and went to feed the attack-trained Doberman pinscher that he had leased for $25 a week. Holding out the meat, he forgot and commanded, "Get it!"; the dog obediently bit his hand. He was still bandaging the wound when two policemen, answering the Tel-Guard summons, began pounding at his door. Fumbling frantically, John managed to undo the three locks on the door, but in the process he dropped the 7-lb. vertical steel bar from the $14.50 Police Fox lock on his foot. After apologizing profusely to the cops, he limped back inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Long Day in the Frightful Life | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

...more hunted than hunter," declares Dr. Maurice F. Freehill, professor of educational psychology at the University of Washington. "Black is In this year," beams a Negro Washington. D.C., student and he has been making the most of it. Handsome and athletic, he drives a Cadillac, walks a Doberman pinscher and holds court under the shade trees of Washington's Dupont Circle. He has more white girl friends than he knows what to do with. "They pass me around," he says with amazement. "They think I'm this potent black Adonis, this ebony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Black & White Dating | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...telephone operators who write 1,000,000 orders a year. Macy's also has a private police force big enough to protect a city the size of Des Moines; it is captained by an ex-FBI agent, who presides over an array of secret photoelectric alarms and six Doberman pinschers, which emerge from their rooftop kennels to patrol the floors after dark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: The Great Shopping Spree | 1/8/1965 | See Source »

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