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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feel like putting a rifle together as ordered. His admission: "I can't live with a lot of people. They disgust me and I just feel like taking off." Private L.'s only goal seemed to be solitude; he had no dates, and even drank to "sit by myself and just drink and think." An I-2 tagged as "emotionally immature, aggressive," Private L. fully expected that he would get into trouble again when he returned to duty. Grant agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Psychology at Work | 7/25/1955 | See Source »

...since. At cocktail parties he takes a Manhattan, eats the cherry and leaves the drink. At a union meeting once, he promised to "have fun with the boys afterwards" in return for a favorable vote. Reuther won the vote and, as promised, had fun: he smoked one cigar and drank one small beer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: The G.A.W. Man | 6/20/1955 | See Source »

...they been promoted? What were the 1955 cars like? Within three hours from the time they splashed across the bridge, the four were aboard The Bataan (once General Douglas MacArthur's personal C-54 transport), on their way to Honolulu. They savored every bite of filet mignon, drank two gallons of milk and leafed through magazines, admiring pictures of a girl they had never heard of named Gina Lollobrigida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Across the Sham Chun | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

Among the 2,500 Indians who, dumbly surviving, lived at Vicos three years ago, Manuel Cruz, a lean-faced man of 40, was typical. Daylight, for him, meant only work; he had a mild form of tuberculosis, brought up an illiterate son, drank cheap rum at funerals. For the right to keep his ancestral four-acre subsistence plot, he toiled three days a week in the fields of the patron. His superstitious technique for growing his family's food, potatoes, was to "talk to the land...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Experiment in the Andes | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...Gauri, wife of the Lord Shiva, god of creation and destruction. Then, in solemn silence, the husbands and wives bathed in the river and sat down in pairs, face to face. Basing their action on Lord Krishna's scriptures, the wives washed their husbands' feet and drank a few drops of the washing water. They made floral offerings to their husbands and walked respectfully round them. They laid their heads on their husbands' feet and prayed: "You are Brahma [Creator], You are Vishnu [Preserver], You are Maheswara [Destroyer], You are my god. If I have committed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Husband Worship | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

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