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...been stripped of its mirrors and packed with desks and household equipment. From the front row of the crowd 27 girls made their way to the platform and received certificates of efficiency and good behavior from the Ministry of Health. "We thank the government," said one in a singsong voice, "for helping us leave our wretched existence and start a new and useful life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: Some Changes Made | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...carelessness. Once, when Don Newcombe crossed up his catcher with a slow curve after taking the signal for a fast ball, Roy promptly flipped off his mask and padded out to the mound. "How come you give me the local when I call for the express?" he demanded in singsong irritation. Campy believes that his chatter helps. Says he: "You shouldn't be a dead pants out there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Big Man from Nicetown | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

...Sunday afternoon, and the band of students who call themselves "The Chinese High School Singsong and Harmonica Corps" were practicing in a second-floor club in one of the busy sections of Singapore. From the bottom of the stairs, a voice called up and asked in friendly Mandarin to speak to Corps Leader Lee Tai Lim. A few seconds later, a shot rang out and 21-year-old Lee fell dead in the street. He had been well known in Singapore as an active anti-Communist student leader. Said the police, as they offered a record reward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Murder in Singapore | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

...electric train slides into the station 30 miles northwest of Osaka, the pretty conductress announces the last stop in a falsetto singsong: "Finally, honorable passengers, your patience is rewarded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Honorable Rockettes | 1/3/1955 | See Source »

...singsong chant of an auctioneer rang through the gilded, tapestried halls of Cairo's Kubbeh Palace last week, sounding the end of one of the most expensive and generally useless collections of gimcrackery ever assembled. Like a royal pack rat, ex-King Farouk had cached everything he could beg, buy and demand-tiny telescopes with diamond sprays, priceless relics of Pharaonic culture, a 100blade knife, an outstanding coin collection, a Nazi marshal's gaudy baton. Egypt's revolutionary regime was putting all of it-treasure and trash-on the block in a six-week sale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: The Fond Collector | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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