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...campaigning is rough. Johannesburg's Afrikaans Nationalist newspaper Die Transvaler published a cartoon of a panga knife labeled "Mau Mau" piercing a black cloud and hanging over a white family, with a caption: "Vote Nationalist to avert this." Brigadier C. I. Rademeyer, head of South Africa's Criminal Investigation Department, quietly made it known that up to ten plainclothesmen were attending all political rallies, mixing with the crowds. Since the cops were assumed to be progovernment, United Party members were alarmed. Asked the Rand Daily Mail: "Are they spies?" Nationalist hoodlums tried to break up United Party rallies...
...racking pressure of ten years of rising prices. Despite all the government's promises, food costs were 27% more than a year ago; within the week, the price of rice had nearly doubled because the neighboring state of Rio Grande do Sul had suddenly embargoed shipments to avert a shortage of its own. Electric-power rationing caused by drought had shortened factory hours and thus cut take-home...
Then fell the news of Stalin's mortal stroke. Republican leaders grabbed it as a chance to avert a partisan brawl. The resolution, said Taft, was not worth a big fight. The Administration began studying ways more effective than resolutions to weaken the Communist grip on the slave nations...
...avert such misadventures, the Air Force uses a "partial pressure suit" made like a skintight union suit of strong, greenish material, with an airtight helmet. When the cabin air pressure falls too low, an automatic valve shoots oxygen into the helmet at about ten Ibs. pressure per square inch. It also inflates rubber bladders along the wearer's limbs and body, making the suit even tighter. This enables the man to breathe and keeps gas bubbles from forming in his blood. He stays conscious longer and has a chance to bring his damaged plane down to inhabitable...
...formidable documentation, taken from official records (see box), Eisenhower raked the Truman Administration for failing to avert the "tragedy" of the Korean war, despite Republican forewarnings...