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...before, shock-haired Novelist Louis Bromneld, owner of a 1,100-acre Ohio farm, had become so incensed before the dairymen that he tore up his prepared speech, roared: "Since preparing that speech, I have read a vast amount of nonsense about the food crisis. I am tearing mad. . . . They haven't any real farm policy down there in Washington. One word can describe the one big mess they've made: 'Bedlam...
...equivalent of boys' gangs almost any where, had got out of hand: they had robbed and used their knives on some lone sailors on dark side streets. But probably the trouble could have been ended right there. One who thought so was Eduardo Quevedo, a plump, cigar-chewing, shock-headed amateur sociologist, president of the Coordinating Council for Latin Americans, member of the Citizens' Committee on Latin American youth...
...coldhearted skeptics who sought to debunk Sikaiana with dry research got the shock of their lives from the Navy Hydrographic Office's staid, unromantic Sailing Directions for the Pacific Islands: "The natives are Polynesians and have remarkably light colored skins. They are handsome and have a splendid physique...
...world for the loss of its titular head. But there had been more time than that. When Edsel Ford underwent a major operation 16 months ago, he must have known his days were numbered. But were even 16 months time enough to adjust the empire to the shock...
...shock of Edsel's death, the plight of the empire will still be critical. It may not stand the shock of another death. Average U.S. life expectancy is 61 years; Henry Ford...