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...tables, lit by candles stuck in tin cans. One F.L.N. officer proudly exhibited his silver belt buckle with its legend in Spanish: "Fidel Castro for the F.L.N." Grinned Colonel Boumedienne: "That won't make the Americans happy." Contagious Guns. While the tribesmen roasted an entire sheep on a spit for lunch, Algerian horsemen charged back and forth on the plain below, rising in their saddles to fire their flintlocks in unison at the sky. The contagion spread to the F.L.N. troops on the ridges and crests. and for 20 minutes gunshots echoed in the hills. Moslem children burst into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Emergent Army | 4/6/1962 | See Source »

Last month the amateurish blue-shirted militiamen outside Guantánamo were replaced by 3,500 spit-and-polish young troops in starched fatigues. Many of them, apparently, were trained in three Czech-and-Soviet-commanded camps nestled in the hills above Guantánamo. More than 25,000 Cuban troops now surrounded the Guantánamo area...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Yankees Besieged | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

Virus B belongs to the herpes family, and the victim may have been infected by saliva-a monkey's spit may be as bad as its bite. Lederle now allows only specially trained personnel, following rigid rules, to be near its temperamental monkeys...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Call for Caution | 3/16/1962 | See Source »

...find some gristle or a piece of meat you cannot swallow, don't spit it out on your plate . . . Place it on the prongs of your fork, then place it on the rim of your plate. Don't let this embarrass you. It is perfectly correct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Be Nonchalant | 12/1/1961 | See Source »

...began again in the afternoon, talking as we worked, but not stopping. Once in a while one of the men paused to spit on his hands, or to push the black mud off his hoe with his bare foot. We never wore our leather sandals while working. Sometimes we would hoe over an ant hill, and the small black ants would nibble at our feet...

Author: By Jack R. Stauder, | Title: Zinacantan, Mexico | 11/3/1961 | See Source »

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