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...sleep and work, and that's about all of it. The federal system has too many bureaucrats. I always had the unexplained sense of great eyes watching me. And they go in for psychological brainwashing." At the moment, Kasper was laboring with three other prisoners, collecting litter and offal on county roads. Allowed one of his guards: "He'll pick up a dead dog quick as anybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 29, 1960 | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

...arena at a refreshment stand that sells lionburgers; leftover anger can be worked off at the David and Goliath Slingshot Galleries. But, say the promoters, "above all else, Bible Storyland will be a happy place." One of the gayer rides will take paid customers to heaven -in a gold litter drawn by a team of cherubs. From the air, the "Shrine of Faith Plaza," Ur and the caravan route will be laid out to "form the cross of Jesus Christ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPECTACLES: Bible Disneyland | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

Creature of Habit. The problems that the commuter poses to the nation's cities are great and prickly-but they are not unique. In the 2nd century, the satirist Juvenal graphically described the swarming streets of ancient Rome. They were thick with litter bearers, chariot jams, and furious drivers who knocked people down and ran over them in their haste to get home to dinner. Many a Roman mumbled in his toga: "Quid hercle faciamus de obstructione?"* But it was not until late 19th century London that the commuter appeared as a distinct type. London's rapid growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Those Rush-Hour Blues | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

...given dominion over the beasts of the earth. Man knows how the beasts reproduce. Because he knows better, man controls his own number of children, so he can have a family instead of a herd, a flock or a litter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 9, 1959 | 11/9/1959 | See Source »

...father, an ex-home guard, had told him to return to the government. To reach the area of a reported fight only 20 miles away in the jungle took Amkha's troops nearly three days' march. The wounded died where they fell, or were borne by litter, dugout canoe or oxcart only to reach the hospital with fatally gangrenous wounds. Matter-of-factly, General Amkha observed that he had been asking for U.S. helicopters for the past two years, had received none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: Over the River | 9/14/1959 | See Source »

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