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...cyclone struck Mexico's west coast. Another roared up the rainy Gulf, obliterating tropical Tuxtepec, near Vera Cruz. Thousands of refugees took refuge in treetops. Over hundreds of bodies flocks of buzzards wheeled. Banana and corn crops were destroyed...
...mixture of beeswax and peanut oil and inject it into a muscle. They find that the suspension maintains a good level in the blood for six or seven hours after injection and keeps appearing in the urine up to 32 hours. The drug is extracted from the urine with banana oil, from the banana oil with a special phosphate solution...
...local residents. The ones who are too weak to walk remain where they are landed until they starve. Many of them try to prolong their sufferings by consuming inedible or semi-edible substances-hard woody roots . . . a dark green powder, prepared by drying and pounding certain leaves . . . heaps of banana skins and mango stones scavenged in the streets...
...coffee, tea or commercial vitamins. She has merely tasted them and just cannot eat them. The case was so rare and unbelievable that I took the matter up with her boy and girl friends, asking them what Lois ordered when they went into the ice-cream parlor for cokes, banana splits, chocolate sundaes...
...Burly, banana-fingered Charles John Grimm first started cutting capers for Chicago fans in 1925. In seven years as the Cubs' first baseman, he endeared himself to the crowd by mixing mimicry and banjo playing with expert ball. In six years managing, he was even more impressive: two pennants, two seconds, two thirds. He was fired in 1938 as the Cubs slipped, but the Cubs kept slipping to their present all-time low. One of Grimm's chief hopes is the Cubs' $60,000 clouting outfielder Lou Novikoff, who missed spring training. Novikoff did not get along...