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Dead Letters. In Caldwell, Kans., six new refuse containers were repainted to read "Trash" instead of "Litter" after citizens insisted on posting mail in them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Mar. 10, 1958 | 3/10/1958 | See Source »

...that fetches up at their farm-two prostitutes, four U.S. Negro soldiers foraging for sex, and a netful of AWOL lunatics, including a gently demented old clown and a bloody-nailed slug named Chopper (he is obsessed with decapitation). When Chopper is gored by a huge white bull, a litter of bare-bottomed children worry his body like jackal pups, then lose interest while a pig nuzzles the corpse. The narrator, a young farm girl, tumbles through her tale with savage glee, takes a sorrowful tone only when relating that, although old enough (14), she is not big enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Child's Garden of Venery | 1/20/1958 | See Source »

...South Pole is not what it used to be. After 13 months of lavishly air-supplied U.S. occupancy, it has been described as "looking like a Chinese laundry after a hurricane," with assorted litter peppering the snow. But getting around the Antarctic by land is still quite a trick. Last week New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mt. Everest, arrived at the South Pole after a 1,200-mile journey by tractor from the British base at Scott Station on the Ross Sea (see map). He made it with only one drum of gasoline left, enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Methodical Journey | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...week's end, amidst the litter of abandoned slogans and the fizzle of rocket threats, the world could take stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: The Syrian Aftermath | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

...inseminate female rabbits. When left to themselves, rabbits produce about half males, half females, but the rabbits that Dr. Gordon inseminated with X sperm produced 80% females. His success in producing males was not quite so good, but in all seven cases where all the rabbits in a litter were of the same sex, that sex was the one Dr. Gordon intended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Sex to Order? | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

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