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Very Sinc. At the annual Dania, Fla. Tomato Festival, squads of barefooted young ladies in T-shirts and shorts threw tomatoes at each other. Nick Gulas, a Nashville promoter, proudly announced a Seven Girl Rassle Royal (every girl battling for herself) at the Hippodrome. A widow who described herself as...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: Fun for All | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

Mighty in the Mountains. So adapted, Andean man can perform amazing quantities of work at altitudes where non-adapted lowlanders fall gasping and retching. The somber-eyed, long-exploited descendant of the Incas is in fact a sort of superman. "After eight hours' hard work in mines at more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High-Living Superman | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Many less fortunate newcomers, officially labeled by the refugee administration as "that group of persons which is not to be harbored in the Western zones," live in "wild camps" which are little more than mud holes-simply because there is no more room for them in the regular camps. Among...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: A Good European | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

In another Times ad, Callahan asked plaintively: "What's the matter with Montana? . . . Don't they like flats in Montana? . . . Aren't legs a national tradition? Montana, Montana, please write." Wrote one embittered Missoula man: "I don't think our women need these flats. Their feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ADVERTISING: Yes, We Have No Bonanza | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

To CHESF's engineers, as to most Brazilians, Paulo Afonso's progress is a matter of national pride. Impatient at the delay in getting heavy earth-moving equipment over back roads, CHESF's shirtsleeved, roly-poly President Jose Antonio Alves de Souza told his men to go...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Power for the Bulge | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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