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This involves a tricky operation. At this time of the year, the Gila monsters (thick-bodied venomous lizards with skins like orange and black beadwork) avoid the summer heat, come out only at night. So Woodin hunts them at night by jeep. After the sun has set, the monsters like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Monster Doctor | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

Johnson is important because the Democratic Party must make its record in Congress, mostly in the Senate. Primarily on this record will the Democrats face 1954 House and Senate elections. As the party's Senate leader, Lyndon Johnson believes that he and his party should be rope dealers: just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The General Manager | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

Mika Waltari, one of the most successful of practicing historical novelists (The Egyptian, The Wanderer), has taken this most crucial of all sieges as the subject of hs new book. It is both a lush and a tricky subject, combining the excitement of a historic military occasion with the far...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Decline & Fall | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

Helping Hand. Such was the climate when Charlie Wilson turned to the major problem of revamping Harry Truman's estimated defense budget for fiscal 1954. Here was tricky ground, an area which, unlike management and procurement techniques, had no real parallel in Wilson's Detroit experience. The real...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Man from Detroit | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

Penalties and some tricky Yale shooting soon erased this margin, however, and the Blue led 3 to 1 at the period's end.

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Yale Lacrosse Team Wins 11-7 Over An Underdog Crimson Ten Saturday | 5/18/1953 | See Source »

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