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Arizona are from Asia? 3) In what mysterious way does the kangaroo rat triumph over the total absence of water...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Curious World | 9/19/1955 | See Source »

Cheese Was No Lure. This is the time to expect the unexpected. Desert jack rabbits like to feed on insulation. Once a kangaroo rat was found nesting in an essential instrument at the last minute. An atomic engineer tried to lure him out with cheese, but kangaroo rats don't eat cheese. Hundreds of nervous technicians waited until one found out how to catch a rat. In the lonely hours between midnight and 3 a.m., Graves is still checking, between catnaps and gin rummy games. To help predict the blast effects of each atomic explosion, World War II Navy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: He Gives the Word | 4/18/1955 | See Source »

Matusow was in good voice and-for part of the time-in good humor. On the stand he idly twisted pipe cleaners into animal forms, shaping a dog, a rabbit and a kangaroo. He testified that he had recently invented "an entertaining, nondestructive toy," but he refused, claiming the immunity granted by the Fifth Amendment, to name the manufacturer for fear of hurting the toy's sales. Curious, Senator Herman Welker persisted: What was the toy? A miniature lie detector? "Well," said Matusow coyly, as the hearing-room crowd roared, "I call it a stringless...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Human Yo-Yo | 3/14/1955 | See Source »

Advance Payment. But Matusow's popularity soon began to wane. At social gatherings he was a braggart and a bore. His only talents were telling involved dirty stories and twisting pipe cleaners into animal-like figures, e.g., he made a little kangaroo and named it Billie-Bunk. When the novelty and profits of his career wore off, Matusow sulked. Moreover, anti-Communist investigators began-although not soon enough-to distrust him. The FBI now says that it dropped him in 1950-yet Matusow was permitted to testify at great length (some 700 pages in the record) in the Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: False Witness | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...innkeeper showed up with a trunkful of frozen food and a two-week supply of wines. But wiser entrants in the Redex* 9,600-mile, round-Australia stock-car trial prepared for trouble. They came equipped with aircraft seats and safety belts, tools, emergency rations, and elaborate navigation equipment. "Kangaroo deflectors" jutted forward from front bumpers like locomotive cowcatchers. Some pessimists even loaded up with trinkets to buy off belligerent aborigines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Driving Down Under | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

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