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...World War II combat veterans with growing families, mortgages and civilian careers. Besides their personal problems, they complain that regular officers are hogging the soft stateside jobs while reservists go to Korea, that the planes they must fly are often poorly maintained. Flying, said one, "has developed into a poison for me." Others are simply disgusted with the Korean stalemate. Said one stay-downer: "We don't see any sense in giving our lives for a cause that even the civilians are completely apathetic toward...
...hypothesis. General Gruenther, Ike's chief of staff, went on record last week that SHAPE does not expect a Russian attack this year. Even if the hypothesis were wrong (as everybody hoped it was), Russia's germ warfare was the kind of tactic that could only poison the wells of international relations for years to come...
...dishonor to make ends meet. A fellow Austrian urges them to go back to Vienna. But just then their U.S. visas come through-only for the consulate's doctor to find that Franz' condition, despite his heroic efforts to hide it, is hopeless. Only by swallowing poison can he set his wife and Bubi free...
...article Bronner mentioned that in small quantities fluoride is a deadly poison with no known antidote. When interviewed, Dr. James H. Shaw, Assistant Professor of Dental Medicine at the Harvard Dental School, replied that this statement was true, but in order to be dangerous the quantity would have to be 200 to 300 times that proposed by the city of Cambridge...
Flexing her muscles last week, Sheilah began her new job by dishing out some of the casual poison that has got her barred from the sets of such Hollywood stars as Clark Gable and Humphrey Bogart. Samples: "Errol [Flynn] says he doesn't worry about money just as long as he can reconcile his net income with his gross habits . . . Lana Turner is saying that Bob Topping owes her $82,000. Moral: Never marry a trust fund...