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...motorcycle set, the day was tough on tires and engines, but easy on leather jackets, which could be left at home. For the two members of the somewhat less exalted bicycle set shown in the picture on the left, it was a day on which some ugly snoop tried to take your picture...

Author: By Michael S. Lottman, | Title: 'HOT WEATHER BRINGS OUT THE BIKINI IN ALL OF US'--ANON | 6/1/1962 | See Source »

Revenue agents caught wind of the cargo from customs men, began to snoop around the admiral's Marin County home. Armed with a search warrant, they raided a locked room behind the admiral's bar, found 816 bottles ranging from rare old Scotch to rich liqueurs and Greek brandy. Erdmann had paid $760 for the entire supply; Treasury agents said it was worth $4,400 retail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Big E | 9/26/1960 | See Source »

Good Morning, Professor. Provincial Criminal Investigation Director Benito Ibanez listened to the gossip and sent a few men around for a routine snoop. When they got nowhere Ibaez sallied forth with 70 armed cops and barged into the larger of the two houses gun in hand, ready for anything. Not even Ibanez was prepared for what he saw. Flanked by a Red star bearing the hammer and sickle, a tall, mustachioed teacher was holding class for some two dozen adult students. Ibanñez had stumbled onto the "Aurora" college-an international center for training Communist propagandists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Big Red Schoolhouse | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

Explained the story beneath: "Dropped axle, 4-inch-long shackles, reversed spring eyes and a leaf removed from the spring group account for snooping attitude of front end. Spic-and-span engine room houses a semi-torrid flathead with lightened flywheel, two-pot manifold, headers and special distributor . . . The lakes pipes are up front."* Thus the editors of Hot Rod magazine instructed do-it-yourself fans in the delicate art of transforming a 1940 Ford coupe into an authentic, snoop-fronted, 130-m.p.h. "iron...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hot Magazine | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

Britain's two major farm organizations were so pleased with their guaranteed prices and markets that they raised no objections to the A.E.C.'s right to snoop and expel. The A.E.C. can expropriate farm land from a small farm and join it to a larger farm on the ground of "greater efficiency." An A.E.C. can decide a certain farm is best suited to cattle raising, and order the owner to put up cow barns, whether he can afford it or not. If a farmer rated laggard is put "under supervision," he can get a hearing before the A.E.C...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Home Is Not a Castle | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

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