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...rich January-May bluefin whaling in the antarctic. The factory-ship and its 15 catchers were barely through the Panama Canal when Peru menacingly announced that she was prepared to defend her "ichthyological richnesses" from the "pirate armada" with force. An Onassis lawyer hurried to Lima to "fix things up"; at the same time Onassis took out a $15 million anti-confiscation insurance policy through Lloyd's of London. A mysterious silence followed-until Onassis' Hamburg agent leaked the fact that the ships were whaling unmolested "between the 200-mile limit and the coast...
HOME REPAIRS cost U.S. householders a whopping $3 billion for the first five months of 1954, reports the Census Bureau. It figures that 18 million U.S. homeowners, 70% of all who own homes, spent a median $61 in fix-up money. Of the total, half were do-it-yourself fans; the rest gave the work to professionals...
...mask, survival kit, maps), dashed toward two long, lean F-86D fighters. In two minutes they were surging down the runway with a crashing roar, and two more jets rolled into position for takeoff. Before their wheels were fully up, the lead pair were getting radio orders and a fix on the suspect plane. Interceptor pilots can open fire at will against any aircraft they believe to be hostile. Identifications are quickly made in daylight; at nighttime, pilots buzzed by suspicious jets are quick to turn on their landing lights to identify themselves...
...Adjustment." "In this perspective," says Lindner, "we can no longer regard the mutiny of youth as the product of 'bad' influences, a transient perversity that time will cure or that a few applications of social-service soporifics and mental-hygiene maxims will fix. Mutinous adolescents and their violent deeds now appear as specimens of the shape of things to come, as models of an emergent type of humanity." Furthermore, Lindner believes that society, in trying to combat the epidemic, only compounds the conditions that generate the psychopathic virus-by "the myth of conformity, the big lie of adjustment...
...already added the usual condiments of salt, pepper, bay leaf, thyme, beside an atom of ginger root, put a pinch of cayenne, a nutmeg cut into small pieces, a handful of crushed jumper berries, and lastly a dessertspoon of powdered sugar (effective as musk in perfumery), which serves to fix the different aromas. Twice a day you will turn the gigot. Now we come to the main point of the preparation. After you have placed the gigot in the marinade, you will arm yourself with a surgical syringe of a size to hold ½ pint, which you will fill with...