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...seduced in a bathroom by a sulphurous blonde in a purple cashmere pullover who has wandered into his place with a crowd of hipsters. Then he suffers the pangs of remorse that any real Frenchman would presumably feel at being unfaithful to another man's wife. He takes poison-just before the American finally shows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sexe Is a Four-Letter Word | 6/2/1958 | See Source »

...material containing uranium with a layer of high-melting solder. When the neutrons in the reactor rise above a critical level, showing that an excursion has started, the uranium fissions at a rate that creates enough heat to melt the solder. Then high-pressure gas will shoot neutron-absorbing poison into the reactor. Even if other controls have failed, this last-ditch nuclear fire extinguisher will keep the reactor from exploding or melting itself into radioactive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: To Prevent Excursions | 5/26/1958 | See Source »

Whether all these settlements would decrease the anti-American poison spread by the captive Cairo press or broadcast by Cairo propaganda stations remains to be seen. At the moment Nasser was off to Moscow-to be guest of honor at the May Day parade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SUEZ: Paying for the Canal | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...rabies spread over Brazil, the government tried desperate countermeasures. It set up 15 centers to produce rabies vaccine, but immunity given by it wore off in a few months. Specially trained bat-killers attacked the bats' home caves with flamethrowers, dynamite and poison gas. They chopped down hollow trees where the bats shelter, but still bat rabies spread...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Death on Leathery Wings | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

...with a love surpassing that of friendship." Their ardent relationship was only intensified by the fact that male admirers fairly swarmed around both of them-readily swooning when the "dazzling Juliette" draped her graceful neck around a harp and plucked a few plangent twangs, readily reaching for underdoses of poison when frustrated amour demanded the appearances ol a tragic exit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Juno & the Peacock | 4/28/1958 | See Source »

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