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...Alabama, took him to a deserted shack, castrated him with a razor blade, poured turpentine into the wound (TIME, Sept. 16). Six members of the Ku Klux Klan were arrested by Alabama police and charged with mayhem. One of the men explained: "We just wanted some nigger at random...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: One of the Worst Things | 11/11/1957 | See Source »

Mayor Sullivan would not predict to whom the second choices of his thousand-odd surplus votes would go. Under proportional representation, votes for losing candidates and ballots chosen at random from the surplus votes of a winning candidate are given to the voter's second choice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Mayor Leads In Race For City Council | 11/7/1957 | See Source »

LAST TALES (341 pp.)-Isak Dinesen-Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Grotesque & Sublime | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

...great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that, from our very prison, we should draw from our own selves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Questing Humanist | 10/28/1957 | See Source »

ATLAS SHRUGGED (1,168 pp.)-Ayn Rand-Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Solid-Gold Dollar Sign | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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