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Digging In. Much of that preparation was a matter of just plain digging in. The U.S. was preparing for a gopher existence, if necessary, and the national bestseller was a 32-page Department of Defense pamphlet, The Family Fallout Shelter. Until August, monthly requests for the free booklet had averaged 260,000 copies. But during the next four weeks, 2,400,000 copies were distributed, and in the first half of September, even that rate doubled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The People: Ready to Act | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...marks; most pitching records (games won and lost, strikeouts, walks, and shutouts) have not been approached in years, anyway. And Jim Perry of the Indians may take advantage of one or two more starts to set a new record for yielding home runs, but he probably would have made gopher ball history, regardless...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: Zorro To Lead Twins To A.L. Flag | 4/21/1961 | See Source »

...guide to action. Halacha, which literally means "the proper way" and is an all-embracing term for the Torah, plus 2,000 years of legal rabbinical commentaries on it, covers every conceivable detail of daily life, from what constitutes a fair interest rate to how grain that falls into gopher holes during harvest time should be left for the poor. At Manhattan's Orthodox Yeshiva University, 150 rabbinic alumni listened to a lecture on halacha and science by Yeshiva's Dr. Moses D. Tendler, a 33-year-old rabbi and biologist. The lecture was a good example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Halacha & Science | 2/22/1960 | See Source »

...Gopher This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...bang out of your Dec. 23 People item on the lion Mary Hemingway shot. I know how she feels, I once shot a gopher that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

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