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...bottle, then pummeled him unmerci fully. Suddenly a young Negro bystander shouted, "The police are coming!" The boy who shouted, an 18-year-old Mississippian newly arrived in New York and identified by police only as "Larry," was simply trying to help Weiner by scaring away the gang. Later Lar ry said bitterly: "I'm scared of my life up here in New York. It's safer in Mississippi." In any event, his ruse worked and the gang fled. A dozen of them were arrested afterward and charged with crimes ranging from malicious mis chief to assault...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Races: Terror on the Trains | 6/12/1964 | See Source »

...Dymo Scoop. Why was it born at all? Advertising is a multibillion-dol-lar industry-but that sum measures what advertisers spend, not what Madison Avenue takes home in the form of a 15% commission. The nation's 3,500 ad agencies employ 64,000. But that figure is exceeded by the U.S. population of doctors, lawyers, bankers, pharmacists and bakers-none of whom can claim a single newspaper column devoted to their professional activity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Navel-Gazing in Wasteland | 4/17/1964 | See Source »

Love of God and lust soon become hopelessly intermingled. Because Amaro is her spiritual guide as well as her lover, Amelia comes to exist in a kind of circu lar spiritual slavery. "Her judgments now came already formed from the priest's brain . . . She lived with her eyes on him in animal obedience; all she had to do was bow her head when he spoke and when the moment came, let down her skirts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Bad Shepherd | 4/26/1963 | See Source »

Party also attacked the candidacy Stuart Hughes, calling him a very coleus candidate." He compared as to Lar Daly, a perennial Illions seeker who campaigns in an Uncle suit, and spoored him for "having a since rest this summer while the of the candidates were out meeting people as they should...

Author: By Hendrik Hertzberg, | Title: Kennedy Aid Rejects Plea For Debates | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...already packed with growing larvae from lamprey eggs, so the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Canadian Department of Fisheries decid ed to destroy the larvae themselves. In search of a selective lamprey-larva poison, they tried more than 6,000 different chemicals on jars containing two lamprey lar vae, two bluegill fingerlings and two small rainbow trout. Some chemicals killed nothing; some killed both larvae and fish. Some killed two of the fish and one larva. Finally, in 1955, Chief John Howell of the service's Hammond Bay, Mich., lab, found a jar with its two larvae...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Victory on the Lakes | 7/13/1962 | See Source »

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