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Elizabeth's Diary. The dead man was Sir Jack Drummond, 61, famed British biochemist, who had devised Britain's palate-poor but vitamin-rich World War II diet of cabbage salads, carrots, grey wheaten bread, potato pastry, and dried eggs. Scientific adviser to wartime Food Minister Lord Woolton...
Exactly six months ago, the U.S. and its principal allies at Lisbon initialed the master blueprint for European defense. By the end of 1952, they would mobilize the 50 combat divisions that Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower considered the rock-bottom minimum needed to contain a Soviet attack. During 1953...
¶ .Australia's Marjorie ("The Lithgow Flash") Jackson, who doubled in the 200-meter and 100-meter sprints, equaling the world 100-meter mark of 11.5 sec. ¶ Andy Stanfield, who tied Jesse Owens' 1936 Olympic record of 20.7 sec. in the 200-meter dash to lead a...
SSS. The Finnish 1,000-mark bill is engraved with a picture from mythology showing a band of naked people standing on a shore and looking wistfully out to sea. Finns today joke that the picture shows them waving to the last reparation ship. It is only a joke, however...
Faucet Bars. "Build-it-yourself" is already a booming business. Those who were quick to detect it have cashed in. Black & Decker, one of the first power toolmakers to go after the amateur market, has boosted sales from $17 million to $30 million in five years. Brooklyn's David...