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...Bible, but confirmed audiles can find plenty of esoteric items, ranging from a cozy chat with a prostitute ("It's no kind of life for anybody") in Cast the First Stone (Dolphin) to the singsong incantations of drugged natives ("Chjon nka sikjane-nia tso'') in the Mushroom Ceremony of the Mazatec Indians of Mexico (Folkways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spoken Word | 12/9/1957 | See Source »

Tardily but impressively, a simulated mushroom cloud rose over the coastal hills of Thracian Turkey. Huge amphibious tanks churned up golden Aegean beaches, and troop-laden helicopters scissored down out of azure Mediterranean skies. Then 8,000 U.S. Marines who had come 6,000 miles from Virginia in four weeks, landed in Turkey last week to grab a stake of ground just north of the historic shores of Gallipoli. The tactical problem set for NATO's Operation Deep Water was to assume that Turkey had been invaded from the north, and in 40 days' fighting, the Turkish NATO...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NATO: All Ashore | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...artist-man and the mother-woman, combined with discussion of the relative merits of Heaven and Hell, there is the consolation of some very excellent special effects. The Hell scene is opened with an eerie concert of Devil's helpers, and characters appear with great explosions and mushroom puffs of smoke. The lighting by Greg Harney contributes also to the success of the Hell scene as it does to the entire production...

Author: By George H. Watson, | Title: Man and Superman | 7/18/1957 | See Source »

...word "collusion" hung like a mushroom-shaped cloud over the Suez debate in the House of Commons last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Collision Over Collusion | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

...establishing a new college, the "mother" institution would purportedly be able to concentrate primarily on its own educational problems without feeling any obligation to mushroom in size. Other inducements include a reported desire on the part of the sponsoring foundation to diversify the location of the nation's first-rate universities, which are now primarily concentrated in the East...

Author: By Steven R. Rivkin, | Title: University Weighs Ideas For New Colony College | 11/23/1956 | See Source »

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