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...Poison & Dog Food. Officials had expected to dole the food out slowly over a two-week period. But on the first day, nearly 100,000 East Germans swamped the eight distribution points, lining up in queues 15 and 20 wide, stretching for blocks. The West Germans hurriedly set up another 18 stations, increased the staff from 500 to 3,400, and summoned more food from big West Berlin stockpiles which had been built up against another Red blockade of Berlin. As fast as these supplies were drained, ships and planes brought in new food from...
...Australia, the rabbit is a public enemy. He nibbles the sheep ranges bald, defies traps and poison, and reproduces with devastating abandon. About the only thing he has not done is to take a gun to the human hunters, as the rabbit did in the nursery rhyme, Struwwelpeter. Thus, few Australians mourned when government anti-rabbit scientists declared biological warfare on the rabbit. They imported from South America a rabbit virus disease, myxomatosis, which kills by causing tumors, and in 1950 planted it in Australia's rabbit-infested backlands. It spread like a grass fire, killing rabbits...
Thank you for the wonderful book review of The Conservative Mind by Russell Kirk [TIME, July 6] . . . Let's have more such "liberal" conservative doses of reviews as poison an that now antidote to the destroy man and his civilization...
...view. The villains employed by Dr. T. are a carefree mixture of pirates, heavies out of The Arabian Nights, dabblers in atomic science, and cheerleaders for a rival junior high football team (one of the best of the picture's ten songs is a close-harmony, walls-of-poison-ivy number, softly sung by a group of "us stinkers"-Dr. T.'s plug-ugly hirelings...
Tragedy and exposure force his hand. Dinah gets pregnant and has a stillbirth. A poison-pen letter informs Madeleine of her husband's adulterous affair. Rickie promises not to see Dinah again, a promise he soon finds he cannot keep. When Madeleine turns down his halfhearted divorce plea, Rickie decides to run away with Dinah, but an attack of ulcers changes that plan. When he finally gets on his feet again. Dinah has drifted away from him, towards drink and the arms of another lover. Though she puts a "good face" on their patched-up marriage, Madeleine soon tosses...