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...nationalists think industrialization in the cure-all for their economic backwardness," Coleman said. "Whereas formerly colonial authorities discouraged this notion, now they are taking positive steps toward industrial development...
...police pieced together something of his life. He was one of 16 children of a New York policeman, had indeed prospered as a businessman. In 1935 he married. His wife developed cancer, and he took her traveling-seven times around the world, he said later-in search of a cure. After she died in 1946, he became a recluse...
...London, Defense Minister Earl Alexander of Tunis suggested one possible cure for Britain's current anti-Americanism. Said he: "Get to know the Americans . . . When you get to know the American people as I do, you won't be anti-American...
...cabbage is the source of the first hangover cure that Clayton and Langdon actually recommend: sauerkraut juice. "Every icebox," they say, "should have this Universal." They also recommend "the Spirit of '76" (spirits of ammonia), and an international array of pick-me-ups. These usually contain at least one hair of the dog in the form of Pernod, curacao, cognac, absinthe, Fernet Branca, or just plain white wine...
...when Gide published The Vatican Cellars, in which he made his homosexuality explicit for the first time. The book brought a wrathful letter from Claudel: "If you are not a pederast, why have you so strange a predilection for this sort of subject? And if you are one, cure yourself, you unhappy man, and do not make a show of these abominations...