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When in need of more child workers than they have whelped themselves, tough Rumanian gypsies and hard-fisted peasants sometimes buy a "child slave" from professional kidnappers. Such a snatcher was feeble, wheezing Katinka Barbalate, 35, who was finally caught at lessy last week. Police nabbed her on a blanket charge of "kidnapping hundreds of children and selling them to gypsies and peasants...
...pick, staked out their claims on the easy frequencies, the most readily exploitable wave lengths. Ultrashort waves (frequencies of 30,000 kilocycles and higher) were the wasteland. It was known that they were reliably effective only as far as the horizon, a paltry range for services which sought to blanket the whole earth...
...about 130,000 more employes of the Government eligible for the Civil Service and permanent tenure of their jobs, if they have held them six months and can pass examinations (non-competitive). The orders also set up a personnel council, to watch over the merit system which will now blanket 660,000 of the Government's 826,319 civil employes...
...inches per minute within a cat's windpipe. When administered in oil or other fluids, the particles quickly reached the alveoli, were not completely excreted except over a period of weeks. The researchers found that the cilia, to remove dust effectively, must be covered with a "blanket" of mucus. The cilia kept this mucus moving up & out of the lungs all the time...
...shivered, for the chimney cast a long shadow over him and an evening breeze was already ruffling the Charles. Slipping on some trousers and bundling his blanket, he crawled along the sharp ridge over to a gable window. He felt indescribably exuberant, for in three weeks he would be on his way to the mountains...