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Noumea, the capital, was rundown, poverty-stricken. The banana-shaped, 250-mile-long island, defended by an ill-armed garrison and ancient cannon, would have dropped like a ripe banana into the hands of the Japs. So the French welcomed U.S. forces, at first. But U.S. forces soon outnumbered the colonists and, with the vanishing of a Jap invasion threat, irritations between the two populations cropped...
...irrigation projects worth millions of dollars nourish endless acres of the finest apple trees in the U.S. In October the trees are dusty grey from spraying; the boughs are heavy with fruit; thousands of wooden poles prop up the limbs' ripe red burden. Nowhere else does nature conspire, with volcanic ash, rainless summers and cold autumn nights, to produce apples of such deep and vivid color...
...base guarding the Mediterranean approaches. Crete was formidable when it lay between the Allies in North Africa and the Germans in southeastern Europe. Now the Allies are behind Crete. Military men in Cairo expect that island, once a symbol of German triumph and might, to fall "like a ripe apple...
...when Hawaii seemed ripe for invasion, the Territorial Governor thankfully handed over the reins of government to the U.S. Army. But since the worst of Hawaii's fears of invasion were over, civil authorities have been trying to get the reins back. Last March, loud public grumbling finally resulted in a proclamation which "relaxed" martial law in the Islands...
High blood pressure, says Dr. Page, should not necessarily be alarming: some people with blood pressure well above the danger line of 140 live to a ripe old age, because their blood vessels and hearts are tough enough to stand the strain. Hypertension becomes dangerous only when it results in sclerosis (scarring) of the arteries or arterioles (small branches of the arteries). Eventually this scarring may close some of the small blood vessels, cut off blood supply, overstrain the heart, lead to a brain stroke or coronary thrombosis...