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What to do? Ward 22 Alderman Frank D. Stemberk tried a new approach. With $500 from the ward treasury and $220 from local businessmen, he offered a $1 bounty on every rat killed. Residents armed themselves with bats, homemade spears and flashlights, and waited on their porches for the rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Eratication | 10/10/1977 | See Source »

Radcliffe's top scorers were captain Leonida Rassenas and Susan Lowry, who with three victories each accounted for all the Radcliffe scores. the J.V. attack was led by Sally Spears and Susan Lambiris, with three wins apiece.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fencers Foil SMU Teams | 12/6/1976 | See Source »

Microbes, like people, are always in a process of evolution. They have also proved marvelously mobile. They have marched with every army ever fielded, and claimed more victims than bronze spears, muskets or machine guns. From 1803 to 1815, Napoleon lost more of his men to typhus than he did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Of Men and Microbes | 11/22/1976 | See Source »

The importing and exporting of opera companies is perhaps the most unlikely growth industry in the world today. Just moving an opera company across town is a money-losing proposition; to transport one across an ocean, lock, stock and spears, is to risk bankruptcy. Yet in 1975 the Metropolitan Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Opera: Two for the Road | 9/13/1976 | See Source »

For two days and nights last week, Zulu impis (war parties), armed with spears, sticks, knives and knobkerries, the traditional Zulu clubs, were on the warpath once again, turning Soweto (pop. 1 million) into a city of terror. Forming an extended battle line in the manner of the Zulu warriors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Suddenly, a New 'Zulu War' | 9/6/1976 | See Source »

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