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In easygoing Lafayette, La. (pop. 19,210), 425 factory workers bustled each working day last week turning out more than 100,000 bottles of a murky brown liquid that tastes something like bilge water, and smells worse. The patent medicine called Hadacol has been such a resounding success in 14...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Dietary Supplement | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

Why do they stay? The Puerto Ricans of the Barrio dislike the big city's impersonal hostility ("People here are cold and act as if they didn't trust each other"), miss the music and dancing of the easygoing life they left. But the slums they came from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW YORK: World They Never Made | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

A stern exception to this easygoing rule is 70-year-old Mrs. Waka Yamada, who looks on concubines in about the way that Carry Nation looked on saloonkeepers. Sometimes admitted to the courts as a "special attorney," Mrs. Yamada argues her cause eloquently. Last January she won a precedent-shattering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: No Quarter for Concubines | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

The Unitarians (membership: 75,000) celebrated the 12 5th anniversary of the American Unitarian Association with a 998-delegate convocation in Boston that voted unanimously in favor of a "federal union" with the 53,000-member Universalist Church. The well-dressed, easygoing Unitarians enlivened their sessions with jokes instead of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Protestants at Work | 6/5/1950 | See Source »

Neither Daddy nor Mammy. The Senate had approached the matter grudgingly. Majority Leader Scott Lucas, doggedly vowing to make good on Harry Truman's civil rights program, had made FEPC the next order of business, had then let an easygoing Southern filibuster jog along for most of two weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Tyranny or Blasphemy | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

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