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...completely automated hog, whose comfort is so catered to that he never moves a muscle except to belch, the reason why lean meat has all but vanished from bacon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 30, 1959 | 3/30/1959 | See Source »

...recording royalties. For the other 30%, plus 10% agent's fees, he watches over their appearance (longish hair, with an occasional permanent), their manners and morals ("the more they can date the better, but no late nights and no alcohol"). He also works like a sand hog to get them bookings in nightclubs, on TV, and even in straight plays. Says 27-year-old Parnes: "You've got to put the goods in the window...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROCK 'N1 ROLL: Eager, Gentle, Fury | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

Ranger Equipment Co. is on the market with the Porkliner, claims that with $112,000 worth of its equipment one man can raise 7,000 hogs a year with only half-day help. The Pork-liner is a hog's country club. The little pigs begin with private rooms, to avoid being stepped on by the sow. A hydraulic lift is used to stack the cages six rows high. Manure falls through the cage bottoms and is mechanically removed to be used as fertilizer. In their whole lives, until they are made into ham, sausages and bacon, the hogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Pushbutton Cornucopia | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...last year's vaunted "great leap forward" in the Year of the Dog in the production of everything from steel to sesame seeds, and given all their own hard work, mainland China's hard-pressed masses had every reason to expect to be eating higher on the hog. Instead, they are living through some of the hardest times since Mao Tse-tung took power in Peking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RED CHINA: Too Much Too Soon | 2/16/1959 | See Source »

...scene run in reverse, the Beatniks read their poetry, made their pitch for money for a new Beatnik magazine. The Big Table, and then stalked out. After a late night on the town, they made a mystical pilgrimage to Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo (which has no wart hog and no laughing bowl), turned up next evening at the Sherman Hotel, read more poetry for a curious crowd of 700 (who paid $1 and up), this session sponsored by Chicago's Shaw Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Fried Shoes | 2/9/1959 | See Source »

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