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...feet in diameter. No one was hurt, and the people of Juarez, enjoying their spring fiesta, thought the bang was part of the show. But the diplomatic repercussions were painful. The White Sands brass, covered with cold sweat, told Karsch to work out a system for riding herd on rockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Safety Man | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

Empty Saddle. In Vernon, Tex., veteran Cowpoke Tony Hazelwood, riding herd on the fall roundup, cracked three ribs in the crash of his bucking helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 10, 1949 | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...attacks, turns into a windmill, and lays the knight flat on his back; the next time the giant, when he slashes at him, turns into a row of wineskins and fills the inn with his blood; a hostile army, when the knight does battle with it, turns into a herd of sheep, and the shepherds stone him almost to death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Wineskin into Giant | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Decorative Faith. In this defection of leadership, Maritain sees "a kind of punishment of the Christian world, which for a long period had more or less betrayed Christianity in its practical endeavor, and despised the lessons of the saints, and forsaken the immense herd of the hopeless whom destitution and unlivable conditions of existence riveted to hell on earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The God-Haters | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

Such breeding is by no means new, but Schnering thinks it has been "too localized and slipshod" to have much effect. From his herd of 50 purebred bulls, Schnering expects to deliver anywhere in the U.S. on 24 hours' notice. He plans to send out technically trained salesmen with refrigerated kits containing the latest Curtiss product. At prices ranging from $7 for "pool" semen (i.e., an unspecified bull) up to $150 (selected sires), a successful mating will be guaranteed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Candy King Reaches Out | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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