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...copulating with sheep, dogs or adolescent girls, and by drinking the famed "Kaberichia cocktail"-a mixture of semen and menstrual blood. And when he was assigned to kill an enemy of the movement, a sworn Mau Mau pledged himself to remove the eyeballs of his victim and drink the liquid from them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Oath Takers | 6/13/1960 | See Source »

...Watch Co. and gained seven seats on the twelve-seat board, a squabble broke out. Riklis got out, saying: "I do not like to fight." His group bought into Cincinnati's Rapid Electrotype Co., a maker of mats and printing plates that was worth $3.800,000 and had liquid assets of $1,900,000. Riklis then issued debentures to raise $6,500,000, used part of it to get the controlling interest in another firm he was acquiring-Chicago's American Colortype Co., a producer of color plates. His next attempt, to gain control of Smith-Corona, failed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: The Rapid Riser | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

Died. Georges Claude. 89. called "the Edison of France," a pioneer in the use of liquid air and rare gases, inventor in 1910 of the neon light; of a heart attack; in St.­Cloud. France. A political royalist, he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1945 for wartime collaboration with the Nazis, was paroled 4½ years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 6, 1960 | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

Handling her big, liquid soprano voice with faultless accuracy, Singer Price achieved an Aïda that was at once feline and tender, sweet and aggressive. She won bravas after her opening trio with Radames and Amneris (a place in the opera that has not drawn applause at La Scala in years), got many more ovations as she ranged effortlessly from finespun pianissimos to brilliantly ringing fortes. "Brava, Leonessa!" cried someone in the audience, while a second voice corrected: "She is more like a panther than a lioness." Said one critic: "Our great Verdi would have found her the ideal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mistress of Stage & Score | 5/30/1960 | See Source »

Strangled Voice. Envious rivals complained that his success was due only to fabulous wealth (an estimated $800 million), a legendary name and a romantic background. Superficially they seemed right: Aly Khan was short (5 ft. 6 in.), balding, plump, and indifferent about clothes. His only physical assets were dark, liquid eyes and an almost Satanic vitality which could be refueled with as little as three hours' sleep...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE INTERNATIONAL SET: Death on a Curve | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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