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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...great a dose either killed or sickened the sheep, and too little failed to produce the desired effect. But the researchers soon discov ered that a dose of about nine milligrams for every pound of the sheep's body weight produced just the right result. The drug affected the wool fiber only where it is produced, in follicles below the surface of the skin, and acted for about 24 hours before being dissipated by the body. During this period, cell growth was retarded, producing thinner than normal segments on each fiber before normal growth resumed. Six or seven days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Biology: How to Peel a Sheep | 12/13/1968 | See Source »

When Bullitt confided his purpose to his friend Sigmund Freud, the Viennese psychiatrist instantly fell in with the idea. Indeed, he took charge: he wanted to set a hand to the chapter about Wilson. In the ensuing collaboration, the chapter became the book. Wilson had fascinated Freud since his discov ery that they were born in the same year-1856-and, more particularly, he blamed Wilson because his personal estate of $30,000 had dwindled away into nothing during the inflationary postwar period. Freud candidly confesses his bias in this book: "The figure of the American President, as it rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Games Some People Play | 1/27/1967 | See Source »

...Democratic Governor John McKeithan ad mits that he may well decide to back Barry. The recent Mississippi Democratic convention was filled with pro-Goldwater sentiment. Georgia's Democratic Senators Richard Russell and Herman Talmadge both predict privately that today Barry could carry their state. Pollster Sam Lubell discov ered last week that Goldwater is, as of now, running ahead of Johnson in Florida, Virginia, South Carolina and North Carolina. In Texas, Lubell found Lyndon holding an uneasy lead that could quickly vanish under the pressure of civil rights troubles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Republicans: The He Could Phenomenon | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...ASHLAND, ORE. The Oregon Shakespeare Festival is the oldest in the U.S. (1935). In the remote forests, casting has to be done by questionnaire rather than audition, but Producer-Director Angus Bowmer has in the past discov ered actors like Hollywood's George Peppard (Breakfast at Tiffany's) and Off Broadway's Joyce Ebert (The Trojan Women). This summer he has a witty, elegant Portia, a sunlit Viola, and a really arachnid Regan, all in the person of Elixabeth Huddle, a 25-year-old ac tress from San Francisco. Richard Coe, drama critic of the Washington Post...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Stage: The Shakescene | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...Times's West Coast edition, came out as usual. But all this was small comfort to the home-bound New Yorker, who limped along as best he could on substitutes. To see how he was faring, Columbia University's School of Journalism conducted a street survey, discov ered he missed the weather forecast, TV listings, movie and theater listings, the stock tables, schedules of athletic events, and the news-in just about that order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Deadlock | 12/21/1962 | See Source »

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