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...center of one of the stormiest, shrillest periods of U.S. political history. Few who ever saw or heard him will forget the malevolent, heavy-lidded stare with which he pinioned witnesses; the adenoidal snarl as he closed in for the kill against a suspected Communist (the McCarthy Committee caught precious few, if any); the public obsequiousness to Senator Joe; the arrogant impatience toward Democratic committee members...
...money they demand and pull down, Brazilian dockers get precious little work done. Along the Brazilian coast, a ship often needs several weeks to dock, unload, load and steam away again. At Santos recently, one ship was 60 days loading 16,000 tons of corn. By the time the ship finally weighed anchor, kernels of corn that had trickled into deck crevices had sprouted into vigorous plants. As port costs spiral, more and more foreign ships steam past Brazil's congested harbors, and dockworkers are now beginning to complain about lack of work. Their inevitable reaction: strikes for more...
Sister Virginia fought the Devil. She locked herself in her cell, flogged her naked back until the blood came, sent precious gifts to Our Lady of Loreto, prayed endlessly that "the Lord would free me from that passion." But several nuns who were Sister Virginia's close friends acted as if they were on Satan's payroll: when the time came, it was one of them who tossed the convent key over the wall to Osio...
...bevy of busty beach bunnies are-in the words of one of their tribal hymns-"just asurfin' all day and swingin' all night." But danger lurks in the dunes: a marauding band of post-Brando wild ones roars up on a midnight raid. Quinquagenarian Cummings, with precious little help from Frankie, sends them yelping off with their motorcycles tucked between their legs...
...first, seemingly minor complaints. But prompt diagnosis is essential if modern treatments are to be effective. Professor Samuel P. Bessman of the University of Maryland found that disodium calcium ver-senate will selectively leach out the lead from a child's system without robbing him of precious calcium. Now doctors are trying combinations of versenate with urea for double action...