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...This Frenchman, who has so much order in his mind and so little in his acts, this logician who doubts everything, this lackadaisical hard worker, this enthusiast for tail coats and public gardens who goes about in sloppy clothes and strews the grass with litter, in short, this fickle, uncertain, contradictory nation-how could the Teuton sympathize with it, understand it, or trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: FROM ENMITY TO ENTENTE | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...tiny harbor, the naked steel testing towers, the exposed beams of half-completed buildings, all took on a weird beauty. It was already a humid 76°. An 8-knot breeze rippled the coconut fronds. In a small operations building, about 15 technicians sat amid the coffee-cup litter of a sleepless night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Atom: For Survival's Sake | 5/4/1962 | See Source »

From some newborn mice he cut out the pinhead-size thymuses. For three to four months, these mice seemed to get along as well as their unoperated litter mates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Secrets of the Thymus | 2/23/1962 | See Source »

...toned Cadillac purred to a stop on a sleazy block of Manhattan's West 45th Street. Out climbed a distinguished-looking, grey-haired man. He negotiated the litter-strewn sidewalk, threaded his way through a scattering of post-teen wenches in black leather jackets and boys with duck-tailed haircuts. For a moment, he stared dubiously at a hole-in-the-wall honky-tonk called the Peppermint Lounge, then rushed back to the waiting limousine burbling, "This is the place!" Quickly, two men and three women got out and gingerly followed their scout past the long, noisy bar into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Instant Fad | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

...days before a plane was due to take them home, Solecki and Colleague Bert Salwen decided to prospect a knoll that looked like just the kind of place a caribou hunter might stand, with a sweeping view of the mountain valley. They were right. Half-hidden in a litter of rocks, they found 25 "choppers"-crudely edged stones with which the first visitors from Asia skinned their catch 10,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Camping 10,000 Years Ago | 8/25/1961 | See Source »

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