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...help. Moroccan police placed all cooking-oil stocks under their control, stopped sales of the poison stuff (and the spread of the paralysis) outside the Meknes area. They also jailed the 25 merchants. King Mohammed V, whose powers are unlimited by any parliamentary control, put out a royal edict decreeing death for "crimes against the health of the nation," and making the edict retroactive to cover the poison-oil case. "The merchants should be made to fry in their own oil," growled a cop in Meknes last week, as he watched the cripples hobble through slum streets...
...edict blew up a storm all over Canada. Snapped the Toronto Telegram: "The idea that 'fat teachers aren't good teachers' is absolutely ridiculous. It smacks of sweeping generalization, always a bad habit, and dictates an inseparable link between appearance and intellect that does not exist." Mounting a crusade for Jim Babinetz, the Telegram interviewed Teacher Hilliard Anderson of Humber-crest public school, who happens to weigh 325 Ibs. Said he: "My size commands authority." The rival Toronto Star took a different tack. Since Jim is now eager to shed 60-80 Ibs., the Star hired...
Upon hearing the edict against using Greycroft's dining quarters, one 'Cliffe-dweller exclaimed, "This is terrible. Now I'll have to go to the Harvard Cafeteria for breakfast." Her worries will be shortlived, however, since the kitchen reopens at 7 a.m. this morning...
Bonfires either within the College Fence or elsewhere still annoyed Faculty and Presidents. Jared Sparks issued the infamous Laws of 1848, which included the edict that, "Any student crying fire, sounding an alarm, leaving their rooms, shouting or clapping from a window, going to the fire, or being seen at it, going into the College Yard, or assembling on account of such bonfire, shall be deemed aiding and abetting such disorder, and punished accordingly...
Endwise. In Ottawa, Canadian Agriculture Minister Douglas Harkness sent an edict through his department saying that henceforth documents would refer to work as "completed," "concluded," or "finished," but under no circumstances would any work be "finalized...