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...city of Kerch, Russia, all the schoolchildren were ordered out for a walk one day. Afterwards, when they were hungry and cold, hot coffee and cake were distributed to them. Both coffee and cake had been poisoned. The children died...
...roving commission. In 1895 he had ridden (as an observer) with a Spanish column pursuing Cuban rebels through the bullet-buzzing jungle; now he rode in a motorcade through Havana streets choked with Churchill-cheering crowds. He lunched with the President, gave the V-sign from the wedding-cake palace balcony, uncorked a brave "Viva la perla de las Antillas!" The world's most celebrated cigar-smoker relaxed in the land of plenty. Given 100 Havanas by the Minister of Agriculture, he responded with a testimonial: "They have a good effect on my temper...
...made; workshops for dancing and for music; workshops for the art of living together in houses, that ridiculous name domestic science being forever anathema. . . . Not science but the goal of science is important. . . . Cookery, for example, is a better discipline in our schools than chemistry. The ingredients of a cake are science, art and good sense, all of which can be blended there into a very pretty simulacrum of the good life...
...their senator-elect leader, smoldering, classic-browed Luis Carlos Prestes. At Communist headquarters by Rio's tree-shaded Flamengo Beach, party members popped firecrackers, chewed gristly, barbecued beef, drank guaraná, a soft drink. While Prestes blew out the 48 candles on a 7-ft., 226-lb. cake decorated with a red hammer & sickle, guests sambaed to a socially significant new tune, "Milk, Meat & Bread...
...Field for London with $41,000 worth of merchandise. The pioneering Pan American DC-4 hauled a 3,520-lb. cargo: 1,900 lbs. (1,000 meals) of frozen food; 225 lbs. of mink and Alaska lynx furs valued at $36,000; consumer staples, such as pipes, tobacco, fruit cake, fresh pineapple, clothing, cosmetics, books, stationery, radio equipment...