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Elizabethan epithets and their modern equivalents resounded in the ancient British trawler ports of Grimsby and Hull last week, and the Queen's ministers sent off an ultimatum to Reykjavik that called up memories of gunboats and a whiff of grape. Reason: Iceland last week proclaimed, effective Sept. 1...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Whiff of Grape | 6/16/1958 | See Source »

Polka Dots & Pioneers. Doubter Williams and, more particularly, the rear-guard of antistatehood people have a certain amount of cold logic on their side. Despite its rapid urban development, Alaska is still a wildly savage land. It is bigger (586,400 sq. mi.) than two of Texas plus one Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Land of Beauty & Swat | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Alaska's biggest business is fishing (1957 take: $93 million), which is controlled by Seattle packers, supervised by an absentee government-and this outside control is the pet hate of Alaska statehooders. They claim that it weakens the Alaskan labor market by bringing in outsiders for half its 25...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALASKA: Land of Beauty & Swat | 6/9/1958 | See Source »

Two days later the school board notified him that he was suspended. Helmuth Wipprecht hit the roof, where many of the children's parents had preceded him. "I don't see how any teaching can explain the meaning of the Seventh Commandment without reference to sex.''...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sex & the Seventh | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Potbellied Boat. When he was a five-year-old kid in Long Branch, N.J., Tom Gifford's father had to tie him up with sash cord to keep him from going fishing. "There wasn't a seafaring man in the family," he recalls, "and I collected blisters on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Old Man of the Sea | 5/19/1958 | See Source »

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