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...clams and oysters. Later, man largely deserted the sea as a source of food. Now, with the land filling up with people, the sea looks good again. In Agricultural and Food Chemistry. Dr. Francis Joseph Weiss, Austrian-born chemist, tells how man might harvest the sea's bumper crops...
...young in years for cynicism-or resignation-to have slashed its mark across his face, and therefore it has a beautiful, candid stupidity." He sings from 1 p.m. to 11, spends more than half of what he earns on supper, then sings until 2 a.m. before hopping the bumper of the last tram. He is six years old. ¶ Victorita is 17 and well built. The boy she loves has TB and lies in bed all day long. He warns her not to kiss him or she may catch his disease, but she kisses him anyway. One day, pale...
This theory was meeting violent opposition from the "more chrome on the bumper" boys. Said Navy Secretary Robert Anderson last week at the Marine Corps school at Quantico: "The increasing power of the atomic bomb suggests to me that the need for improvement of the more conventional forms of warfare may well become greater, rather than less, as we approach absoluteness in mass-destruction weapons... It may well be that the presence of such fearful weapons may act as a deterrent to their use by either side. Should the superweapons thus cancel themselves out-and I suggest to you that...
...bomb threat. Last week, in a public speech, Humphrey went a step farther: the new Joint Chiefs of Staff must produce a defense plan that will be a "real new product." Said Humphrey: "It won't be done just by putting some additional chrome on the bumper. We have to have a brand new model. . . and still [spend] less money...
...Parisian "cellars." Tariff barriers and import restrictions have virtually shut off the big Latin American markets. Things were even worse in the quiet town of Grasse, near the Mediterranean, whose 18 distilling plants supply the French perfume industry with most of its flower essences. Grasse was harvesting a bumper crop of 1,320,000 lbs. of jasmine blossoms. This could only cause trouble because: 1) there was already a surplus left over from last year; 2) cut-rate jasmine essences from Italy, Spain and Holland have been cutting into the Grasse market; and 3) some natural essences (violet, lilac, lily...