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...found in Middle Afro-Asia lay several hundred eggs each (by backing into the ground) which grow in a few weeks to winged adults from inch-long size to finger-length miniature bombers, can cross oceans. Experience has shown locusts had best be destroyed in their youth before they gang up and get off the ground. So observers watch their breeding spots. Since last February R.A.F. pilots patrolling the Red Sea have watched for locust swarms as well as enemy aircraft. First step is to destroy the egg emplacements, then spread poison weak enough to leave cattle unharmed, but strong...
...gang quickly cleared out of that apartment. Behind, as evidence of what had happened to Nelson, they left a blood-soaked pillowcase, two blood-soaked, handkerchiefs, stains on sofa and floor. After that, nerves were nearly as raw as Nelson's tortured head and face. The gang split up, took two new apartments. They never saw Stewart again. Somehow Nelson got away, too, and fled to Minneapolis. And somehow the Federal Bureau of Investigation got the clue it needed...
Neither were the British, apparently. Last week, while they kept democratic United Nations' friend Jawaharlal Nehru in jail, they lifted the ban on the Khaksars, a storm-trooperish gang which talks like the Axis radio. Possible reason for the ban-lifting: the Khaksars are violently anti-Congress. The British got a promise from the Khaksars that they would no longer drill, carry weapons, wear uniforms or badges, and "in general the activities of the Khaksars are to be of such a nature as not to cause the least anxiety to the authorities anywhere as long as the war lasts...
...Golden Gang...
...Rooney, who slipped to fourth in the poll after leading it for three years. Second biggest moneymaker has been in the Army five months-Clark Gable, one of the top ten ever since the poll was first taken eleven years ago. Gary Cooper ran third. Newcomer to the golden gang: golden Betty Grable, who ran eighth...