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Word: mannerses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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The marks of man's incursion on the wilderness are by now unmistakable -bullet-riddled trail signs, garbage-strewn campsites, carved-up tree trunks and paint-smeared rock faces. To Mrs. Margaret Robarge, wife of a Seattle postal clerk, such wanton destruction, which she first encountered on a pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outdoors: Setting an Example | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

GOMA has since consumed most of Peggy Robarge's time and most of the family's savings, but it has attracted almost 50,000 members nationwide. "The problem," she says, "is human erosion, the impact of millions of people on the hairline balance of nature." The solution, she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Outdoors: Setting an Example | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

It is the Mongolian gerbil (pronounced jur-bill), a ball of fluff only four inches long (plus three inches of tufted tail) that looks and leaps like a vest-pocket kangaroo. It is socially quite acceptable, has impeccable manners and irresistible charm. Its credentials are faultless: a desert species native...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pets: Happiness Is a Pocket Kangaroo | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

No Map. Such curious insights into three centuries of American manners and morals stud this book like the hammer work of a carpenter who has been paid by the nail. Gerald Carson is quite capable of organizing a text, as he demonstrated in The Roguish World of Doctor Brinkley, the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dry Paths in a Swamp | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

That seemed to be the Ky government's solution last week for the demonstrations triggered by the firing of I Corps General Nguyen Chanh Thi last month. A harsh crackdown on the demonstrators-mostly students-would only play into the hands of the waiting Buddhists, who first rose to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Viet Nam: The Political Climate | 4/1/1966 | See Source »

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