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...Crimson swimming team will swing into New Jersey today on the second half of its two-meet road show with little energy lost in a 71-15 meeting with Penn. The Tigers are expected to offer more resistance, but not enough to spoil the varsity's undefeated season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swimming Team Beats Penn Taking Nine Events | 2/23/1957 | See Source »

...birds do not eat Monarchs, and naturalists have assumed that they taste bad. Dr. Urquhart tried Monarchs and found that they have hardly any taste, resembling dry toast. So he was not surprised to find that birds eat labeled Monarchs without hesitation. The bit of white paper seems to spoil a natural color pattern that keeps birds away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Migratory Butterflies | 12/31/1956 | See Source »

Divorced. By Jayne Mansfield, 23, Broadway blonde (Witt Success Spoil Rock Hunter?): Publicity Agent Paul Mansfield, 26; after six years of marriage, 21 months of separation, one child (Jayne Marie, 5); in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 5, 1956 | 11/5/1956 | See Source »

...hard to tell how valuable the disciplined approach to love could be, whether in fact it might not spoil that naturalness that must exist if life is not to become rigid and formalized. At any rate Fromm argues for more responsibility in our interpersonal relations and less fantasy. And it is conceivable that the loving person could develop through great conscious effort that final stage of ease and naturalness that mark great artists in other areas...

Author: By Lowell J. Rubin, | Title: Fromm Criticizes Modern Loving | 10/27/1956 | See Source »

...over again, the 427-mile Thruway from New York City to Buffalo would be even better; he says he would avoid all scenically dull stretches, make roadways at least 80 ft. apart, build them at different levels for greater safety and so that oncoming traffic would not spoil the view. Last week Highway Man Tallamy got his chance to put these ideas in effect all over the U.S. President Eisenhower chose him as the Government's first Federal Highway Administrator in charge of its $33 billion program for a coast-to-coast network of superroads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: The Highway Man | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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