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...uncontested right to root in any garden. In Calcutta, great humped Brahman bulls still stalk majestically across streets, bringing traffic to a screeching halt as they nose in a vegetable dealer's baskets. In some smaller cities, humble people may still be seen following cows to catch and sip the animals' urine in the belief that it surpasses in potency all other means of purifying soul and body. Hindu businessmen support old cows' homes more readily than old people's homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Cowed | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...Maid and the Thief and a revue based on the cartoon characters of Jules (Sick, Sick, Sick) Feiffer. Renaissance imitations have appeared all over Sunset Strip-the Unicorn, Pandora's Box, Chez Paulette, the Bit-but the closest approximation is Positano at Malibu Beach, where patrons sip $1 spumoni sodas, play Monopoly and pingpong, and take in entertainment that ranges from productions of G. B. Shaw to a nudist-colony director answering questions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nightclubs: Hipitaph | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...murder trial more than the British public, and British murderers have responded by exhibiting a gory ingenuity that few practitioners of other nationalities can match. One 1949 classic that gripped all Britain involved a man who did in nine people over a period of years, pausing each time to sip a wineglass of warm blood before dissolving the body in a vat of sulphuric acid. Another British murderer, convicted in 1953, consummated his frequent love affairs by strangling his partners and hanging their bodies behind the kitchen wall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: A Mummy in the Closet | 10/31/1960 | See Source »

...Allie remembered it: "I ain't goin' to say who it was even now. We crossed our hearts never to tell and we never did, even after what happened. I wasn't sure what happened or just when, but our friend was given' us a sip of all different kinds of wines, fancy good ones in pretty bottles, and then it happened all right, all right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: With Gun & Sewing Machine | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

...House, a combination university hostel and West End club. East Africa House is subsidized by the individual colonial governments, but members also pay an annual subscription. The different nationalities generally group together. In the pleasant bar, Moslem Somalis sit in one corner drinking Coca-Cola; a group of Kenyans sip martinis, Tanganyikans have their whiskies, and a Uganda engineer drinks beer by himself. All the talk is of politics, both international (a majority held that Khrushchev was right and Eisenhower wrong on the U-2 question) and domestic. Where West Africans have little time for fun and games ("except," said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Host to Rebels | 6/20/1960 | See Source »

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