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...Treasure Tracker. For uranium hunters who want to prospect from plane, train or auto (TIME. Oct. 11), Manhattan's Radiac Co. has developed a 6-lb. supersensitive Geiger counter. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Oct. 18, 1954 | 10/18/1954 | See Source »

...inch footpads. Once, floundering out of a river, Hunter Scott suddenly came upon the huge-tusked giant and shouldered his rifle, only to find the sights waterclogged. By sliding back into the river, he sought to escape the shrieking charge. The monster, possibly distracted by Scott's Borana tracker, turned aside. Scott finally crept close enough to aim between the elephant's eyes. But his admiration for the handsome old tusker dulled his urge to kill. He shot high, the old bull crashed off, and Colonel Scott returned to the States, well content that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coexistence with Giants | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

...time she is teenage, Sylvia can read the faintest marks and signs of caste as ably as a jungle tracker can read a spoor. But Sylvia, secure in the shelter of her father's wing, enjoys sticking her neck out. It is tedious always to be "Russell's daughter"-to swap sophisticated chaff with Daddy and his "high-color" business friends, to go to the Town Hall with "people of good family, olive-complexioned, with Good Hair." So Sylvia frequents the frame house of her Indian girl friend Naomi, where a gang of fascinating outcasts has created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Guiana Belle | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

...tracker of corruption in the Administration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Time News Quiz: The Time News Quiz, Feb. 25, 1952 | 2/25/1952 | See Source »

...said Columbia's famed Sociologist Robert S. Lynd (Middletown, Middletown in Transition), at a youth conference in New York's City Hall. The trend which alarmed this veteran tracker of U.S. trends was the prospect that the nation's early-teenagers are growing up to be a new "lost" generation like that in Germany and Austria after World War I. "Too young for the glory of having been in war," said he, they will be "passed over when jobs are given returning veterans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: New Lost Generation? | 1/29/1945 | See Source »

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