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After everybody had eaten lunch and the judge was satisfied that Homer Marsh was still none the worse, his honor tossed out the $8,000 damage suit against the Oklahoma Coca-Cola Bottling Co. The judge dismissed the jury. "I hope you have a nice meal tonight," said the judge, "... and a bottle of Coke...
...also oppose the illusion of a third road ... In the world without exception one either leans to the side of imperialism or the side of socialism. Neutrality is a camouflage." He flavored his pronouncement with a Chinese metaphor: "You have to choose between killing the tiger or being eaten...
Bitterness & the Boy Scouts. By the end of World War II, Syngman Rhee had little left of the pacifist idealism which had motivated him in 1919, had acquired a bitter and intimate understanding of the Korean proverb "When whales fight, the shrimp are eaten." Bypassing the Secretary of State, he persuaded the War Department to return him to liberated Korea simply "as a private person." General John Hodge, who commanded U.S. occupation forces, saw in Rhee a possible rallying point, a focus which might bring order out of South Korea's chaos. When Hodge led Rhee onto a platform...
...Claridge's Hotel last week, Sir Frederick Bell, chairman of Britain's Herring Industry Board, rose to speak. "With all the fine food they have in America," said Sir Frederick, "the one thing they lack is a fine Scottish kipper." The guests agreed. They had just eaten 160 fine Scottish kippers to celebrate the shipping of 4,000,000 cellophane-wrapped, frozen kippers to New York, in the first big postwar invasion of the bacon & eggs (and dollar) market by the trade...
...problem of radioactive wastes, have given close attention to mildly radioactive plutonium. They are not much afraid of short-lived, fiercely radiating isotopes, which can be isolated for a while until their activity has died away. Other isotopes with longer radiant lives are comparatively harmless, too. If they, are eaten or drunk by accident, the body excretes them quickly...