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...have two hundred pairs. But all insects, like Gaul, are divided into three parts, or segments?a head, a thorax or chest, and an abdomen. All have three pairs of legs, and most of them have wings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bugs Are Coming | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...shop, one of the best in Paris, and the Academic du Vin, a wine school whose six-week courses are attended by the French Restaurant Association's chefs and sommeliers. Last week in Paris, at a formal wine tasting organized by Spurrier, the unthinkable happened: California defeated all Gaul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Judgment of Paris | 6/7/1976 | See Source »

...King Herod that the "hairy star" was the harbinger of the birth of a boy who was destined to outshine the monarch himself. To thwart that threat to his supremacy, Herod went on a rampage of infanticide. In A.D. 451 a comet blazed overhead as Attila the Hun overran Gaul on a march that culminated in the invasion of Italy. A comet, depicted in the famous Bayeux tapestry, also appeared in the sky on the eve of the Battle of Hastings in 1066. William the Conqueror told his Norman soldiers that the comet was indeed a bad omen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECIAL REPORT: Kohoutek: Comet of the Century | 12/17/1973 | See Source »

...left the gloomy castle of Loyola as a boy, packed off to one of his father's noble friends, who took him to court. He had grown into little more than an engaging rogue, spending his days in military games or reading such popular chivalrous romances as Amadis of Gaul, his nights pursuing less noble adventures with local girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Jesuits' Search For a New Identity | 4/23/1973 | See Source »

Three Tiers. The Government will monitor both wages and prices by dividing the economy, like Caesar's Gaul, into three parts. Firms with annual sales of at least $100 million, which include all of FORTUNE'S list of the 500 largest U.S. corporations plus 800 others, and employee groups of at least 5,000 members will be required to notify the appropriate Government board 30 days in advance of raising wages or prices and obtain approval. The second tier of economic units, firms whose sales are between $50 million and $100 million annually and employee groups numbering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Economy: From Freeze to Controlled Thaw | 11/22/1971 | See Source »

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