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...friend's house, where they soon collected five young men and four young women, including two married couples, and issued instructions for escape. One of the guides warned the tense little group: "Whoever loses his nerve, screams or anything, we'll knock him unconscious and drag him with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Escapes Continue | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

...powerful that he draws the Bride (Ann Lilley Kerr) into the circle of his power; she and Leonardo's wife (Pat Fay in an unhappily neutral role) flash and charm in his presence. If anybody has duende Kerr has; he explains better than Lorca can how Leonardo manages to drag the Bride along like "the pull of the sea." Yet out of what, in this production, does he drag her? Certainly not a tight, musky web, an oppressive atmosphere of blood and vengeance. Rather a cheery village of polite, almost inaudible gossips; Frank Perkins as the Bride's Father...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Blood Wedding | 10/26/1962 | See Source »

Because arthritis and rheumatism are painful and crippling and may drag on for a lifetime, despairing victims are easy prey for quacks. They spend an estimated $250 million a year for treatments that are worthless-or, worse, dangerous. Last week the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the importation of one such dangerous "remedy" known as Liefcort, which a maverick Canadian doctor has been making in his basement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Border Crackdown | 10/19/1962 | See Source »

...Dragged Governor. As the British prepared last month to ram the federation proposal through Aden's Legislative Council, Labor Boss Asnag whipped up excitement at a series of rallies. "This is not unity but slavery!" he cried. "Instead of more freedom we get less. We are going backward. From a British colony we are now becoming a protectorate of the British and the sheiks!" When Asnag told the crowds, "You are the people and can do anything; you can hang your enemies and drag ministers, even the British Governor himself, through the streets," he was jailed for incitement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aden: The Last Base | 10/5/1962 | See Source »

...dead man's gun was gripped hard between his hands, and so I had to pry open his fingers one by one. Then the gun was jammed against the car roof. He was terribly heavy, as dead bodies are supposed to be. When I finally managed to drag him out, the road was under fire. The ambulance driver then helped me lift the corpse onto a stretcher and we put it into the ambulance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher: Sep. 14, 1962 | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

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