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Bite of Austerity. In Dallas, Tim McNulty won a divorce and custody of his false teeth after he testified that his toothless wife appropriated the plates because they couldn't afford a second pair, repaid the loan by biting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

Last week a liner glided down the pistachio-colored Saigon River bound for France with more than 1,000 Eurasians on board. Among them: toothless Louis Loupy and his 14 Eurasian children, the biggest French family in Viet Nam. Many aged parents of adult metis went along with their children, mumbling prayers as they departed the land of their birth. Almost none of the passengers had ever been to Europe before; many of them spoke only Vietnamese...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH VIET NAM: The Girls Left Behind | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Prague saw the three roisterers parading the tiny cobbled streets-huge, toothless Lorenzo, with his booming laugh; senile Casanova, with sparks of old fire in his eyes; between them, Wolfgang, trotting along in a vacuum of bliss and ideas, a quiet little man, looking up at each in turn to catch the last outrageous remark and cap it with some Salzburger dreckiger Witz (dirty joke) that made them pound his slight back and bellow with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Life of a Genius | 2/6/1956 | See Source »

...atomic weapons. The U.S. proposed international control even when it had a monopoly, but the U.S.S.R. has persistently refused to agree to the thorough inspection that would be necessary to make control effective. The U.S.S.R. wants to "abolish" atomic weapons, i.e., it wants to sign a toothless agreement which a democratic country would keep, but which the U.S.S.R. could ignore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Opportunity | 5/23/1955 | See Source »

...great toothless millennium is not here yet, and all over the world little children are still having their nerves drilled out every six months, and are still biting their dentist's fingers in return. At Harvard, specifically, downtrodden College students are still faced with the problem of the third floor of the Hygiene Building...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dental Dilemma | 5/2/1955 | See Source »

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