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Magnesia & Matzo. According to the few doctors who have studied the subject, the craving for laundry starch is an offshoot of the clay-eating habit still prevalent among some Southern Negroes. Those who migrate North sometimes receive packages of clay (known as "Mississippi Mud" in Los Angeles) mailed by friends back home, but most switch to laundry starch, which is easier to obtain and apparently satisfies the same hunger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nutrition: An Urge for Argo | 7/28/1967 | See Source »

...Massachusetts Bay Colony was hardly the place to look for a poet. It was an offshoot of England's Puritan century-righteous, suspicious, humorless and stern. The most trivial event seemed like a personal message from God to be read as a rebuke or reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Benevolent Phantom | 7/7/1967 | See Source »

...century, and though stringent auto-safety standards will soon be put into effect (see U.S. BUSINESS), the U.S. still lacks prevention programs for private homes, public places, and forms of transport other than motor vehicles, where the great majority of nonfatal accidents occur. Moreover, says the Council (an offshoot of the National Academy of Sciences), the care that an accident victim can expect in most U.S. cities is too often inadequate. Ambulance service is frequently slipshod, with untrained personnel causing more injuries and deaths by careening through traffic lights, sirens shrieking, than they would if they took it a little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vital Statistics: The Accident Toll | 12/9/1966 | See Source »

...Black men," cried the speaker, must unite to overthrow their white "oppressors," becoming "like panthers-smiling, cunning, scientific, striking by night and sparing no one!" Max Stanford, a youthful member of New York's new, still minuscule Black Panther Party, an offshoot of the Student Nonviolent Co ordinating Committee, was outlining his own wild strategy for black power before a Harlem audience last week, but his words carried an unintended irony. As the existence of the Black Panthers and the extremes of Stanford's language illustrate, unity-the kind of unity that inspired the successful March on Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Pharaoh's Lesson | 9/9/1966 | See Source »

...been among the English Calverts for generations. Last week, with a fine blend of loyalty and public relations, Edgar M. Bronfman, president of Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, bought the flag at a Sotheby's auction in London to return to the colonies as the property of an offshoot of the family tree, his Calvert Distillers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 12, 1965 | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

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