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Faced with this transistorized stool pigeon, highway patrols are taking alarm, crying "Foul!" The city of Chicago, the District of Columbia, and the state of Connecticut have banned Radar Sentry. Other states take some comfort from the fact that Radar Sentry is erratic; in informal tests. New York experts found that even diathermy machines and neon lights can trigger its squeal. But if the gadget continues to sell, many states will consider banning it. Says New York State Motor Vehicle Commissioner William...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gadgets: Burble & Squeak | 1/19/1962 | See Source »

Governor Volpe calls for a committee to investigate the Bay State's historic statues and draw up a code of pigeon behavior: "We must teach ourselves once again the difference between right and wrong. There is a difference, you know." ... The spiders move to Hayes-Bickford's, where nobody notices them...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/4/1962 | See Source »

...monologues are the author's life (metaphorically if not literally) and are designed only to reveal him. Miller's personality is the sum and essence of his book. It is a terribly vivid personality. And if we give up the vain attempt to shove his book similiar pigeon-hole labelled "nihilist" or "ash-can school," we find that he is a most and profound...

Author: By Randall A. Collins, | Title: Henry Miller's 'Tropic of Cancer' | 12/8/1961 | See Source »

...best college football player in the U.S. this season is a gangling, astigmatic, pigeon-toed son of a shoemaker who sleeps on the floor, runs in the street, dances The Twist, and quotes Sociologist David Riesman. On or off the field, Michigan State Junior George Saimes is something of an iconoclast: a B-plus student who shuns "snap" courses, scoffs at fraternities ("They only do what society tells them to"), and rouses himself to fever pitch with a kind of self-hypnosis. "Every time they send me in," says Fullback Saimes, 20, "I tell myself that the next play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Iconoclast | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

...going to end; beginnings are just like pulling straws." She filled in the rest in "batches and binges" in Baton Rouge, La., Yaddo and Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Reno, Denver, Hollywood, Manhattan, Roxbury, Conn., last month finished up in a glass-enclosed sun porch that overlooks the harbor in Pigeon Cove, Mass. by adding 20 words to the final page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: First Novel | 7/28/1961 | See Source »

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