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Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Military College in Chester asked the cops for help in warding off bands of teen-age girls who roam the campus between 7 and 9 p.m., send up she-wolf calls, toss stones through open dormitory windows wrapped in such distracting teen-age messages as "Why don't you come out and have some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Ways of the Natives | 10/30/1950 | See Source »

...unlikely occurrence since most of India's 176 million cow population perform the useful function of providing motive power, milk, and dung for fuel. The relatively small number of aged cattle who roam the streets and paths are cared for like beggars by the community. Their meager grass ration is no serious drain on food resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: A Duck for Rajrishi | 10/2/1950 | See Source »

...arrived at Beer Baron August Anheuser Busch Jr.'s manicured, 550-acre estate, Grant's Farm, at 6:05. To the horror of his Secret Service guard, he immediately climbed aboard a horse-drawn coach to inspect a herd of buffalo, elk and deer which roam the Busches' acres. Then he joined the granddaddy of garden parties (200 servants had been assembled for the occasion), drank a slug of bourbon, nibbled some hors d'oeuvres, shook hands with his host, and was on his way again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Quick Trip | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

TIME, May 1: "In western India's Forest of Gir where lions roam"-LIONS...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 29, 1950 | 5/29/1950 | See Source »

...western India's Forest of Gir where lions roam, lived a band of dacoits (bandits). Their leader was a fierce man, for he had been arrested by the police, and he had vowed vengeance on all patels, the subcaste to which most policemen in that region belonged: he had sworn to cut off the nose of every patel he met. But the leader had barely begun to slice when he was betrayed to the police, who shot him dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: 100 Pounds of Noses | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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