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...Arctic seas are warming, too. Eskimos of Greenland have had to abandon sealhunting; the seals have moved farther north. Instead, the Eskimos are fishing for cod, which have moved in from the south. Even north of Siberia the water is growing warmer; the Russians are having less trouble with ice on their far-northern sea route...
Israel was another success. Reluctantly but realistically, the government agreed to abandon its alternate plan and to negotiate for Jordan water on Johnston's terms. "We have reached the ten-yard line," said Johnston exuberantly...
...niece of a well-heeled Tammany leader, Kathryn Nunan had been indulged all her life, she testified, from the time she was a madcap flapper in a Stutz Bearcat. She had borrowed and spent money with carefree abandon, and had never bothered to tell Joe about it. In the period from 1946-50, she spent more than $30,000 on clothes, and when Joe Nunan discovered that she had borrowed $5,000 from a friend, he was "very upset...
...have made the momentous decision," he said, "to abandon the presidency. I leave power in the able hands of Colonel Diaz. I urge all revolutionary organizations to support him. I hope this decision will save the revolution...
...palace of Filipino Presidents, and into the office marked "Presidential Complaints and Action Commission." A tired but courteous official asked her to sit down and tell him her trouble. Her problem, she said in soft Tagalog, was that her husband was about to go off to the U.S. and abandon her; she wanted President Magsaysay to keep him at home...