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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tribes curare is prepared by old women; in a few the witch doctor has a monopoly of the business, but usually all the wise old men get together to brew a batch. A widespread restriction is that the curare-makers shall operate in an isolated part of the forest; often they are required to refrain from sexual intercourse while a batch is being run, and women may be kept at a distance. In some tribes the work must be finished before the sun reaches the zenith (or interrupted then). Many refuse to put new curare into old bottles, insist...
...this day. oldtime graduates of Richardson's don't-come-back-without-it school tremble at his name. Says Richardson Alumnus Robert W. Kenny, former California Attorney General: "The palms of my hands still sweat when I talk to that man on the phone." Though his rages often tied the city room in knots. Richardson's intuitive ability to smell out sensational news and get it covered has given "the Examiner's news columns a high luster. In the still unsolved Black Dahlia killing and the Overell murder, Richardson was usually a leap ahead...
Gluhareff, 41, Russian-born son of Michael Gluhareff, engineering manager of Sikorsky's major helicopter program, plans to manufacture his device in partnership with Los Angeles Industrialist Robert McCulloch, hopes to get bids from the armed services and firms such as oil companies, which often need to plunk down a man in rugged terrain. Wistfully, Gluhareff rules out one potential customer: the earthbound commuter. Says he: "The CAA would never approve...
...Goya, as to Malraux, the eternal resembled eternal night. "His patches of dark color often seem to represent darkness, but their function is more like that of the golden backgrounds of the Middle Ages; they take the scene out of reality and, as with the Byzantine scene, place it at once in a universe that does not belong to man. This black is devil's gold; it marks out the fantastic as strictly as the golden background had marked out the sacred...
...price of steel, and the price of steel products, Steelman Blough continued, have often moved in opposite directions. From 1951 to 1955 the price of steel rose 14%, while household appliances dropped 13%. When U.S. Steel in May 1948 tried to fight inflation by refusing a wage increase and instead cut steel prices by $1.25 a ton, the cost-of-living index spurted two percentage points during the following three months. After three months U.S. Steel realized "we might as well have tried to stop an express train with a peashooter. So we had to rescind our price action, increase...