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...guessed what Tony's feverish mind...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winning Poems: The Moods of Summer | 8/13/1963 | See Source »

...Teen-agers and young-adult beatniks have started an out-of-season run on seed stores, buying up morning-glory seeds. Far from representing an interest in gardening, this trend is part of a feverish search for kicks. The word has got around, said the Food and Drug Administration, that the seeds of some varieties of the morning glory contain drugs, chemically related to LSD-25, that will induce other-worldly hallucinations. The two favorite varieties are called, of all things, "Heavenly Blue" and "Pearly Gates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toxicology: Look Out for Those Plants & Spices | 7/19/1963 | See Source »

Successful revolutions typically originate less from a sense of hopelessness than from aroused hope. What began as a legal evolution with the Supreme Court's May 1954 school-desegregation decision has now burst into a feverish, fragmented, spasmodic, almost uncontrollable revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: The Long March | 6/21/1963 | See Source »

Best of all, the next film, From Russia With Love, is already under way, and there should be eight more after that. Looking ahead the cultist's mouth waters with prospects of death struggles on the Orient Express and feverish rendezvous with Vesper and Pussy Galore. Even the laymen seemed to like it last night, and as one poppet murmured on her way out of the theatre, "That's one limey who gets me where I live...

Author: By Bartle Buli., | Title: Doctor No | 5/29/1963 | See Source »

...normally sleepy Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa was astir with feverish activity last week. Crowds of ragged citizens stood gaping as workmen rushed to install huge portraits of prominent Africans across from Haile Selassie's palace. Finishing touches were being put on a spanking new hotel. Mile after mile of 8-ft.-high corrugated iron fence was being put in place along main streets to hide the city's shabby slums...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Together at the Summit | 5/24/1963 | See Source »

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