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...Upper Devonian Period stratum some 300 million years old. How it got there is a mystery that Schweitzer hopes to solve on a future expedition, when he will search for Pseudobornia's still-unknown ancestors. "With such a tremendous stature," he says, "it could not have sprung fullblown from the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Paleontology: World's First Tall Tree | 6/16/1967 | See Source »

...think he is going to be a candidate. We think Romney has a better chance than anyone else." That is not just idle chatter, for Romney's operatives have already taken several seven-league steps along the path to prepare the way for his entry as a fullblown presidential candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: Ready for Romney | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

There is nothing quite like a fullblown civil rights debate to bring into focus the grievous problems of leadership in the Senate-particularly when a Democratic majority is in command. As Minority Leader Everett Dirksen mellifluously puts it, there are "100 diverse personalities in the U.S. Senate. O great God, what an amazing and dissonant 100 personalities they are! What an amazing thing it is somehow to harmonize them. What...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: When Is a Majority a Majority? | 3/20/1964 | See Source »

Mice that show no signs of harboring a leukemia virus may develop the fullblown disease, and produce the virus plentifully, after they are exposed to X rays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Virology: Search for Essential Factors In Causes of Human Cancer | 1/18/1963 | See Source »

Instead, she took a series of lovers, most famous of whom was Poet Rainer Maria Rilke. At the time, she was a fullblown 36. Rilke only 22. but the pair exchanged murky, passionate letters. Wrote Lou: "I was your wife for years because you were the first reality, body and man indistinguishably one, the incontestable fact of life.'' Rilke returned the compliment: "The transforming experience which then seized me at a hundred places at once emanated from the great reality of your being.'' But Lou inevitably tired of Rilke's explosive temperament. She finally noted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An Effusive Vampire | 1/11/1963 | See Source »

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