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...helplessly toward the bottom, it gave its "mayday" call, and the other dolphins rushed to its rescue. They boosted it up to the surface so it could breathe. When it sank again, one of them swam under it, scraping its tender undersurface and triggering a reflex action of its tail that shot it up to the air. The operation was accompanied by a blizzard of dolphin talk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dolphin Talk | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...unwilling to practice what it has been preaching, then it will find that the world has it by the tail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Hard Work and Vast U.S. Investment Begin to Pay Off | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

World by the Tail? Whether the U.S. achieves that goal and goes on to serve all the many millions around the rapidly developing world depends on whether the businessman competes to the fullest of his impressive abilities. One of the great debates of 1959 that is bound to continue on into the 19605 is the economic competition between the U.S. and Soviet Russia. In the statistical numbers game, the experts point in alarm to the fact that Russia has grown to rank as the world's second greatest economic power in the space of 30 years. They cite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Hard Work and Vast U.S. Investment Begin to Pay Off | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...tasted free enterprise, they are determined to sit down to the entire meal. The position of the U.S. was never stronger. But it would have to keep on exercising its leadership. FRB's Martin puts it flatly: "The U.S. faces the '60s with the world by the tail, with every opportunity to be a leader, provided that it is willing to engage in sound practices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Hard Work and Vast U.S. Investment Begin to Pay Off | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...affected a laugh so bloodcurdling that Actor Henry Irving imitated it for dramatic moments in Shakespeare's plays. He often signed his paintings with a butterfly armed with a scorpionlike tail. He inspired much of Trilby's demonic master villain, Svengali. His mistress-of-the-hour strutted nudely past his devout Episcopalian mother, neither one guessing that posterity would make James Abbott McNeill Whistler's mother the most renowned artist's model of all time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Scorpions & Butterflies | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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