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...Lima, never free-flowing, backed up for blocks. Lima's police fought to keep the crowds in hand. Then out through the studded doors of the Church of the Nazarenas and down the narrow street surged a procession of purple-clad penitents, with a great silver litter supported by straining men in the van. The 200th observance of Peru's most popular religious festival, the fiesta of Our Lord of Miracles, had begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Our Lord of Miracles | 10/28/1946 | See Source »

Next to John Harvard, nature's greatest heritage to the Yard is the squirrel. Everyone loves the healthy, frolicking animals except a callous few who wantonly litter the steps of Widener, Sever, and Emerson with countless cigarette butts where uneducated squirrels are liable to find and sample the "filthy weed." Already small, Harvard squirrels are becoming alarmingly stunted as a result of this carelessness, and grey-haired mothers are frantic over the sudden shrinkage in squirrel stature. In response to a Crimson survey, one mother waspishly noted that the Yard was beginning to look like a trash heap and that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Butts to the Squirrels | 10/24/1946 | See Source »

Outside, the main streets and back alleys of Pontiac, Mich. (pop. 65,000) were piled with litter. In the back alleys was a three weeks' accumulation of garbage, in which rats and flies were multiplying. But that was only part of the city's mess. Motorists parked free because the 800 nickle-an-hour parking meters had not been wound. Some of Pontiac's recent dead still lay in mortuaries, because the two municipal cemeteries had no gravediggers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MICHIGAN: Something in the Air | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

Huge, husky (242 Ibs., 6 ft. 3 in.) Cap Krug looked like an Alaskan himself when he got into a wool shirt. He flew across the Arctic Circle to Point Barrow, ate whale meat, and walked through a litter of walrus heads to duck into native shacks. He surprised his guides by landing two-foot rainbow trout in the Kenai River. He also listened-and listened. Everywhere he went-Fairbanks, Point Barrow, Anchorage, Seward, Juneau, Ketchikan, Sitka, Metla Katla-Alaskans who had always wanted to tell the Secretary of the Interior what they thought of the Government proceeded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Formal Introduction | 9/2/1946 | See Source »

...April Princess Sophie went to Kronberg. But Captain Nash had returned to the U.S. and none of her successors knew anything about the priceless jewels. In the subcellar was nothing but a litter of wine bottles, and an empty hole. Princess Sophie then complained to the U.S. Army. Where were the jewels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Something Borrowed ... | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

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