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Giant, sprawling Calcutta, where a hundred thousand homeless refugees sleep on the streets every night, is the most explosive city in India. Murderous riots can be touched off by anything from a trifling rise in streetcar fares to the throat-cutting religious strife that killed thousands in 1946. Calcutta rioters have even perfected their own secret weapon: electric-light bulbs filled with nitric acid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Force Against Reds | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...Midwestern victim was only 13 when he broke out with hives while playing basketball. The boy had to give up sports because every time he played he got hives, with swelling around the eyes, in his throat, and sometimes in his hands and feet. Studied at a big university medical center, he was diagnosed as having an "exercise-type urticaria...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Hives of Effort | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...returns to favor after years of reliance on such awkward physical maneuvers as the Shafer prone-pressure system and the Nielsen back-pressure, arm-lift method. Neither of these gets as much air into a victim's lungs as simply breathing into them after clearing the mouth, throat and windpipe of obstructions. For rescuers who cannot stomach direct contact with a person who may be dead, a plastic tube is already on the market. Or, says the Red Cross, they can breathe through a porous cloth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Mouth to Mouth | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

...rushed up to him before he was sentenced; Patrick Scarborough, 20, orphaned at seven, when his mother was killed in a barroom brawl and his father committed suicide; David Ervin Beagles, 18, a gum-chomping high school senior who held a switchblade knife to the girl's throat before the assault; Ollio Stoutamire, 16, a sometime juvenile delinquent, who has been raised by assorted relatives since his mother's death at his birth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: Justice | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...hadj began the joyous feast of El Idha, commemorating Abraham's near sacrifice of his son Isaac, and Ahmed walked with his fellow pilgrims to the nearby village of Mina, where each must sacrifice an animal. Some 500,000 beasts are imported each year; ordinary pilgrims cut the throat of a goat for about $20; the rich may kill a cow or even a camel. The meat is supposed to be distributed to the poor, but for want of transport, thousands of carcasses are left rotting on the ground. The Saudi Arabian government is considering setting up a cannery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Hadj of Ahmed Murad | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

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