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...sense of deceit, mistrust and danger. Communist terrorists hurl grenades into cafés in broad daylight. Harmless-looking old shopkeepers convert their shabby little stores into arms depots for Communist agents. A Chinese gambling-house operator runs weapons to the enemy. Counterespionage is apt at any time to burgeon into counter-counterespionage. At this game Adam Patch is about as subtle as a sand-lot quarterback. A Vietnamese doctor shows up, claiming to be a deserter from the Communists, with a plan for winning the countryside that the Reds have not yet seized. Although nothing reliable is known about...
...olds (the Depression babies). In 1960 there will be 42 million schoolchildren, 50% more than in 1950. The present decade's marriages, down 20% from the 1940s, will create only 13.7% more families. The trend to the suburbs will continue during the decade; rural non-farm population will burgeon by more than one-third, to 43 million. California in 1960 will have a population of 14.6 million, a jump of 38.3% over...
...Chinese in North China to become a Southern Baptist?"). One of the greatest of those missionaries was Episcopal Bishop Charles Brent. At a worldwide missionary conference in Edinburgh in 1910, Bishop Brent conceived the idea that, just as division thrives on ignorance, unity might burgeon with more inter-church understanding...
...about his fitness to support Elizabeth; the first meeting with his future son-in-law's proud parents; the engagement party, at which he is too busy mixing drinks in the kitchen to make his carefully prepared announcement. His consternation grows as the plans for a "small wedding" burgeon into guest lists of 572 for the ceremony and 280 for the reception. As a way out, he offers Elizabeth $1,500 to elope, withdraws the offer when he sees her disappointment...
...Colonia's soil is the loamy terra roxa (red earth) that Brazilians prize most. After two years' full operation, the farms, for which the Government gives seeds and advice, burgeon with fat crops of rice, 15-ft. corn, sugar cane thick as a truck driver's wrist, beans planted among the corn to keep the ground rich and productive. Says Sayão: "They don't mind planting vegetables, but are horrified at the idea of eating them. 'Makes you sick,' they say." But they are catching on, and on better-balanced diets already...