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...most lethal rat-killer known is odorless, tasteless "1080" (TIME, Sept. 17), recently developed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The same basic poison was simultaneously isolated as the toxic element in a deadly South African plant called "Gifblaar." But 1080, like atomic energy, is almost too hot to handle. It is ideal for murderers. A human victim, without smelling or tasting a thing, could probably be done in by 1/50...
Alternating Georgina's mental balloon ascensions (murderess on trial for her life, high-minded mother of twins, poison-swallowing streetwalker, emergency Portia triumphing in The Merchant of Venice) with her muddled, mundane romances, Dream Girl shoots at nothing much higher than fun. For the first third of Georgina's day, it shoots pretty wide of the mark, is more forced than funny. But once it gets going, it spins merrily along...
...Abroad, I.G. had "cartel arrangements" with 2,000 companies, used them to help the Nazis. At home, besides its own plants, I.G. controlled another 380 German firms. As armorer for the Nazis, I.G. made all of Germany's synthetic rubber and lubricating oil; 95% of its poison gases (Farben tested them on concentration camp inmates); 90% of the nickel; 88% of the magnesium, most of the gasoline and explosives for the buzz-bombs...
...testimony were played up, tailored to fit old prejudices. In Marshall Field's leftist PM, the whole inquiry was treated as a mere smear-as if no one cared to know what had happened at Pearl Harbor. To people who read John O'Donnell's poison penmanship in the Roosevelt-hating New York Daily News and Washington Times-Herald, it was a war criminal trial, with Franklin Roosevelt, the culprit, tried and convicted daily. Sample O'Donnell: "One becomes appalled and frightened at the one-man, all-out ignorance and mental arrogance of the late Franklin...
...British still said that they were merely trying to restore order. Major General E. C. Mansergh, their Surabaya commander, told the Indonesians to lay down their arms. The list of arms he gave ranged from tanks to poison arrows. When the Indonesians refused, British guns and planes shelled and bombed the city and British Indian troops moved in against snipers. President Soekarno of the "Indonesian Republic" condemned the "massacre." His secretary said: "I think there will be much fighting...