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...exact figure may never be known) were massacred under conditions of unbelievable brutality. In five years since partition, neither country has solved the problems of this mass dislocation: each has millions-perhaps 8,000,000 between them-penned in refugee camps, a serious health problem and a drain on slender resources...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAKISTAN: Bristling, Beset Nation | 2/23/1953 | See Source »

...Puebla and Mexico City nearly killed France's Behra as his Gordini smashed up on a tight curve and plummeted into a deep ditch. Behra was dragged out of the wreck with compound fractures of nine ribs and severe facial injuries. Bracco's Ferrari took over a slender three-minute lead, but breathing down his neck were the three Mercédès-Benzes, now bunched, paced by Kling. German Coach Neubauer, sending platoons of mechanics up to the next stopover, was exultant: "We are out of the mountains now. When we hit the flat, the race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Run for the River | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

...cinch of uniform width on a short and chubby girl can be disastrously unappealing, since a wide fabric belt has a tendency to curl over at the edges. Many girls would do well to choose a shaped belt that tapers off and widens at strategic places, playing up the slender areas and playing down the padded ones. There is even a new invention, almost not a belt at all, which rides over the hips like a cowboy's gun belts and may not reach the waist-line at all; this innovation obviously for the slender...

Author: By George S. Abramfs, Erik Amfitheatrof, and Joy Willmunen, S | Title: It's A Cinch--The Hottest Seller on the Market | 10/23/1952 | See Source »

...children playing games, a family bowed in prayer, an old philosopher, two lovely sisters, a father with his son and daughter. Among the figures are bronze flowers, bugs, dogs and a fat, barnyard goose. The whole group stands in a polished, dark granite pool, each statue set on a slender stalk above water level, so that they seem to drift and float across the calm water. Overlooking the figures, Sculptor Milles has placed a merry-looking angel standing guard with a flute and with head cocked attentively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Heaven on Earth | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

...went by the wayside according to the records Hooton compiled was the myth of the "big Irishman with the jet black hair and snapping dark eyes." In the 10,000 people polled, the survey makers found just 33 persons fitting into this category, and they were all small and slender, like Italians...

Author: By Howard L. Kastel, | Title: Hooton Writes Study of Ireland; Shatters Many Common Myths | 9/24/1952 | See Source »

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