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...Llewellyn R. Briggs, sometime R.A.F. Group Captain, Kenya landowner, and leader of the extremists in the London talks. At his 8,000-ft.-high home near Limuru, blond Farmer David Simpson sat staring into the flickering fireplace. "A bloody shame. This lovely country, 90% developed by European capital and sweat, is being completely buggered...
Workers' Sweat. From the balcony of a building housing a Nationalist Committee for Lott, he promptly made foreign capital his prime target. Said he in a small, high-pitched voice: "We no longer desire that the sweat of Brazilian workers serve to build riches for those abroad." At his second rally of the day, he called for improvement of the government steel mill, Volta Redonda, and "more guarantees for untouchable Petrobras," the state oil monopoly...
...Rico's Ca-guas), the Giants' Orlando Cepeda (Puerto Rico's Santurce Crabbers) and the Senators' Pitcher Pedro Ramos (Cuba's Cienfuegos Elephants). In addition, U.S. teams use the Caribbean leagues to season their young players, this year sent down some 350 men to sweat in the winter sun. The result was a brand of ball not far from major-league standards...
...Sabbath-even a flea or a worm. But an exception is made in the case of head lice and maggots. Why? Because, say the ancient commentaries, these are not real creatures in the line of life but the result of spontaneous generation-the louse from man's sweat and the maggot from decaying meat. Modern science, however, does not accept spontaneous generation; hence there must be some other reason for the law's distinction. Rabbi Tendler's answer: the dividing line is between the organism which exists on living matter (the worm on vegetable material, the flea...
...quite clear," Khrushchev went on, "that the U.S. is not the world's most powerful military power. We are not trying to sweat anybody, but these are the facts." Rattling his rockets in the style he used to assail Western "military circles" for doing a few years ago, Khrushchev promised to "wipe from the face of the earth" any aggressor, and boasted: "Though the weapons we have now are formidable indeed, the weapon we have today in the hatching stage is even more formidable. The weapon, which is being developed and is, as they say, in the portfolio...