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When sober, Arosemena pushed through a much-needed austerity program, reversed the drain on foreign exchange, and managed to increase Ecuador's low standard of living a bit. Under pressure from the military, he broke diplomatic relations with Castro's Cuba. His regime seemed to satisfy most people-except for the drinking. But as his drinking got worse, the Conservative opposition in Congress twice sought to have him impeached. Lacking the votes, it asked the military leaders to intervene. At first the army refused. Arosemena denounced his critics as "Creole Calvinists." He was a human being, he said...
Jason's producers have mixed myths to suit their script: Hydra killing was Hercules' specialty, not Jason's. And they have dreamed up monsters Jason never saw, including a steam-powered King Kong, built of bronze, with a drain plug in its heel. The straight story of Jason's exploits, told with magic and imagination and a minimum of studio trickery, might have been delightful. This version is more bull than Bulfinch...
...into the Soviet orbit." Goulart's resolve melted under all the political heat; he ordered still an other detailed appraisal of Amforp's as sets "screw by screw, fuse by fuse." With the original deal scratched, Amforp is left with the thankless task of operating utilities that drain more money and make more enemies every...
Roger was turned upside down to drain the dirty river water out of him, and Dr. Kvittingen began artificial respiration with a tube down his windpipe, but the boy was still in desperate plight. He had no detectable pulse, and all the way to the hospital his chest was rhythmically compressed to force blood in and out of the heart. At Central Hospital a special, electrode needle was pushed right through the chest wall into the heart, and it failed to detect any beat. External pressure was continued. A blood transfusion was started. Not until 2½ hours after...
...rice and vegetable crops. Those farmers who own wells padlock them at night to foil water thieves. At week's end, the shortage had grown so serious that ships of the U.S. Seventh Fleet were ordered to cease taking on potable water in Hong Kong "to avoid further drain on the local water supply...