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Hurry, Hurry, Hurry! Bill Pereira has always husbanded his time, which is limited to 24 hours a day, at the expense of his energy, which is almost limitless. While attending the University of Illinois, he rationed his time for so many things that he wore himself down from 175 lbs. to 130. To court his wife (they have a nine-year-old son), he allotted himself one Saturday night a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Architect of Success | 10/14/1946 | See Source »

Across the River of the Dead and deep in the rolling tableland of Brazil's limitless interior live the wild Chavante Indians. Since Portuguese explorers back in 1790 poisoned their water supply, and killed hundreds, these Indians have fought the white man. For years Salesian missionaries sought to win the Chavantes with presents and "pacification through love." The Chavantes would have neither. Six priests of the mission were killed when they ventured too far into the forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Love Conquers | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...central headquarters, Witnesses methodically divided the city into 11,773 four-block sectors. Then, like locusts, they swarmed out, haranguing pedestrians, charging up doorsteps with portable phonographs (message: let Roman Catholics change their ways), hawking the limitless output of the Watch Tower Bible & Tract Society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: Glad Assembly | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...Nobody who has read the American story, and stood on the prairies under the limitless sky and talked to the kindly people in the far-away towns will want to deride the wistful longing of Americans for things as they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Letter from a Friend | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

Even with official propaganda, apparently limitless funds and control of the labor unions, the Government had found it difficult to promote a country-wide organization behind Dutra. Reasons: 1) state pride, 2) apathy toward dull Candidate Dutra, 3) the hot weather. But now that state governors were to fight for their own political lives on Dec. 2, they would have to roll up their sleeves, rally town mayors, dogcatchers and other local officials behind the Government cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Neatest Trick | 10/22/1945 | See Source »

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