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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to set up shop as independent prostitutes. Said one still faithful wife: "I work with my husband. He has bought a bicycle. This week I shall buy a sewing machine. After that, we'll give up gold mining." "I'll buy good things to eat, and some new clothes," said another. "Then I'll stop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMEROONS: Gold Rush | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...Boiling Brain. "That night," he told the court last week, "the blood boiled in my brains. I could not eat or sleep or even make love to my wife." Next morning he rushed from his house to that of the Mafia chief. The chief was gone, so he killed the chief's mother instead. An elderly couple approaching on the street tried to stop him as he left the house, so Serafino killed them both. Of the five people Serafino killed that day, only one was a member of the Mafia. "I wanted to destroy all my enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Blood of the Mafia | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...controversial vitamin P) to discourage the premature bleeding which often signals (and may cause) abortions. He was one of the first to use tranquilizers. Impressed with the fact that many patients do not gain weight early in their pregnancies, but may actually lose, he encourages them to eat all they want then, watches later to make sure that the gain does not become excessive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Lost Babies | 7/29/1957 | See Source »

...into a deserted village, and he senselessly shoots a returning woman who shrieks when she sees him. With other drifting troops, his effort to slip through the American lines fails, and the weakened Tamura senses the first intimations of madness. He also becomes increasingly aware of the temptation to eat the flesh of the occasional Japanese corpses he finds everywhere, some of them already stripped by others. When finally he attempts to hack off some flesh with a bayonet, his left hand compulsively grips his right and saves him from cannibalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Over the Brink | 7/22/1957 | See Source »

Then Boston's luck abruptly vanished. "On the first night out of Bermuda it got rough. Two days later it got really rough. I couldn't eat. I couldn't sleep. My engine quit, but I was so sick I couldn't fix it. The loss of food and rest were doing things to me. The jaundice I had at Port Said returned. I got a touch of the malaria that had bothered me during the war. I got delirious-semiconscious, you could even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Long Voyage Home | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

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