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...budget is not only unfair but wholly unrealistic . . . We are aware that "nobody wants to end or to impair the merit system," but in view of the tenor of the piece as a whole, its derogation of career employees, its repetition of some of the most moth-eaten of the spoilsmen's cliches, such a qualification loses any real meaning or force. Virtually every attack on the merit system in history has been advanced under the cover of pious protestations. But when those attacks have succeeded -as they sometimes do when public vigilance falters-the real nature...
...every year, there were cases of trichinosis from eating undercooked pork, but 1952 supplied an oddity: there was one outbreak involving seven persons who had eaten bear meat. Somebody had made the mistake of keeping the meat in ordinary cold storage (which is not cold enough to kill the larvae of the worms) for ten days...
...diprotodons, the marsupial equivalents of large, slow-moving, herbivorous beasts such as tapirs, lumbered inoffensively through the lush vegetation that covered Australia at the end of the last glacial period, and they managed to stay alive long enough to be seen and possibly eaten by the first primitive men to reach Australia. But Australia began to have the long droughts that it still suffers today, and this was hard on the diprotodons, which were neither bright nor adaptable...
When two of the three boats were picked up off the coast of Chile 13 weeks after the ship had been lost, eight men were left of the original 20. Two had died and been cast adrift; seven had been eaten; the three in the third boat were never found. There was no official investigation; none of the survivors ever stood trial. Most lived to a ripe old age, though they never quite got over their experiences. Mate Chase used to cache food away in his attic. Captain Pollard, trying to tell the story, broke off: "I can tell...
...unheroic. In his private life he is a drab roue, and his public life is just as futile. Against his better judgment, he gets involved in a grandiose piece of foolishness known as "the Collateral Campaign," which is intended to honor the Emperor on his joth Jubilee. The moth-eaten dynastic symbols behind this campaign do not delude Ulrich, but he hangs on from morbid curiosity...