Word: rational
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major surgery (for a gastric ulcer) in New York. Now the headline writers seemed engaged in a macabre watch. "Piaf suffers and refuses to capitulate," cried Paris-Journal. "Piaf falling like Moliere on the planks of the provincial coliseum*-that was worth the trip," blared the daily Libération. France-Dimanche quoted the singer herself: "When the door closes on my last pal, when I find myself once more alone at home, I want to die like an animal...
When Rogers reached 40,000 ft., he leveled off, and a ground radar guided him toward the 18 km. (eleven mile) course that is specified by the F.A.I. (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) in Paris. He lit the afterburner and opened the fuel control to the limit. Quickly, the ship accelerated past Mach 2 (twice the speed of sound). The F.A.I, specifies that an airplane trying for a straightaway, level-flight record must not climb or dive more than 164 ft. over the course. To respect these narrow limits at better than 1,500 m.p.h...
...apostle of honey and vinegar are unclear. He writes of having observed farm animals cure themselves of illnesses by resting, fasting and eating herbs, but stops short of crediting them with the manufacture of vinegar. Yet he says a dose of vinegar added to a cow's ration guarantees that her calf will be born robust, well furred, and with such inherited smartness that it will take water from a pail without teaching. By extension from animal to human husbandry, Jarvis contends that if a pregnant woman adds honey and vinegar to a well-balanced diet, her baby will...
...small grocers are fighting the supermarkets hard. France's Fédération des Syndicats de l'Epicerie complain that "thousands of small independents have been forced out of business. If the wave continues, another 10,000 will have to close down in the next two years." Germans complain of the "foreign menace" to their livelihood, while Italian shopkeepers lobby insistently to prevent local city governments from granting licenses to the new stores. But the trend is all to the supermarkets. When a big new market opened in Milan recently, the strong Communist element there attacked...
Once upon a time, before the Communists took over, Poland produced all trie food it could consume, and had lots left over for sale abroad. But no longer. Now millions of tons of grain must be imported, and fortnight ago Warsaw city officials slapped on a meat ration of roughly 5 lbs. per person per week. This sounded liberal, but the trick was to get it. By last week, queues were forming in front of Poland's butcher shops long before dawn, and generally, by the time half the waiting housewives had made their purchases, the butcher...