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The two officers examined military personnel and laborers who had been working with DDT for as much as five years. In no case did they find an ailment traceable to DDT. To make doubly sure, they analyzed body fat from 16 men who had been exposed constantly to DDT. Though...
Among topics that Hall will discuss are the techniques of the American agitator, the strength and make-up of racist organizations, and how these groups employ propaganda weapons. He will augment his talk with wire-recordings made at various demonstrations and will exhibit samples of anti-democratic literature
But the government, too, was dragging its feet, Zellerbach continued. A system of taxation which puts 43 taxes on a man's morning cup of coffee "tends to discourage business initiative and increase costs." Another obstacle to economic progress was the Italian bureaucracy. "A friend visited me," recounted the...
Carroll) fostered the fad of the portmanteau word (samples: chortle, combining chuckle and snort; galumph, to gallop triumphantly). But by & large, students have always been the real wordmakers. Sometimes, indeed, their words have become English. Among them: blazer, sophomore and constitutional-originally a bookworm's form of exercise.
Highest honors went to Georgi Dimitrov, famed hero of the Reichstag fire trial who died in a Soviet sanatorium last July, to Vasil Kolarov, who succeeded Dimitrov as Bulgarian Premier only to die six months later, and, inevitably, to the living god Joseph Stalin. Some samples: Kostenec summer resort, the...