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London. To make way for a new road junction, London's urban planners recently decreed the destruction of The Elephant and Castle, a fabled 200-year-old pub, which lent something of the raffish, robust flavor of 18th century England to the whole London district of Southwark.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN EUROPE: Progress of a Sort | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

Salt Pork & Sundown. The western hero, as worshiped in 1959, is derived from a type that was extant for only a brief moment of history-between 1865, when the Civil War ended, and 1886-87. when 80% of the cattle in the West froze to death in two savage winters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERNS: The Six-Gun Galahad | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

In the Pillowcase. To capture the deadly black mamba, the wardens use a fishing rod adapted to pull a noose around the snake's neck; the snake is then gingerly deposited in a pillowcase. Dassies (shrill-voiced, rabbity creatures, distantly related to the elephant) and porcupines are deliberately driven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: Operation Noah | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

The rescue team's chief, Rupert Fothergill, 46, is mostly concerned with keeping his men alive. Fothergill himself has been bitten by a python and a rufus-beaked snake; one of his staff, while swimming, was bitten on the lip by a hissing sand snake. More than the animals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: Operation Noah | 2/23/1959 | See Source »

More Jobs v. Less Cost. Senator Scott made no bones of the fact that he had kept the pressure on the Defense Department and the White House, arguing that B.L.H. should get the award because Philadelphia was then an area of "substantial unemployment." But under a 1954 Executive Order by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: What Price Security? | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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