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...after day the six men and a girl wander through what is palpably the largest number of potted palms ever assembled on one set. Thorns slash at Ann's nightie, a puma snaps at it, a colony of ants almost eats it off her back one night, even a crocodile comes up for a nibble. However, just as Actress Sheridan seems about to violate the Production Code, up steps Actor Ford to offer her his shirt and a spare pair of pants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Nov. 30, 1953 | 11/30/1953 | See Source »

...entrance protesting even further friendship and begging for more salt. An Indian sentry refused them entrance, but his commander. Major R. A. Singh, was so convinced of the tribesmen's loyalty that he urged them to come on in. Nine tribesmen marched into the tent. With one quick slash of his dao, the tenth turned and cut off the sentry's head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Monkeyshines | 11/16/1953 | See Source »

Most Spanish graveyards are places of desolation and decay presided over by gravediggers so thieving and callous that relations often slash the clothes of the dead to keep their bodies from being stripped. At best, the family of Paula Pilar Magan could expect nothing but the hasty dumping of a box into a hole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Brothers of the Dead | 11/2/1953 | See Source »

...comes from the bureaucratic phrase Reduction In Force, the new Dulles-Stassen program to cut down expenses in the agencies that hand out U.S. aid overseas. Last June Congress directed Foreign Operations Director Harold Stassen to 1) fire 10% of the old Mutual Security Agency staff; 2) slash by a third the number of jobholders getting $12,000 a year or more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Rifted, Bumped & Slotted | 10/12/1953 | See Source »

...cars lead all other imported makes in dollar sales in the U.S., hopes to get more of the American market by cutting prices. Reductions range from $190 up to $889 (e.g., from $4,039 to $3,345 for its open two-seater sport), Jaguar's first big price slash in the U.S. auto market since World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Oct. 5, 1953 | 10/5/1953 | See Source »

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