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...fugitive: 1) all refused to enter the woods until a reporter stomped out a trail for them, 2) one dog got lost, 3) a second followed the scent of one of the cops, 4) a third got sick riding in a truck, 5) all three got hay fever from sniffing the dusty ground...
...unwritten part of the curriculum. Hecklers bombarded him: "America carries on germ warfare . . . America's gifts are false gifts . . . Americans Go Home." As evidence of American "sex madness," students in Bombay produced fake pictures of coeds being stripped by American college boys -a farfetched reference to the spring fever "panty raids" of 1952. In Poona the students had been shown newsreel films of U.S. infantrymen threatening a parade of workers, but, as Redding quickly pointed out, it was 20 years out of date. The workers were the bonus marchers who descended on Washington...
...After a plantation overseer died of jungle yellow fever, carried by monkeys and mosquitoes, Trinidad (British West Indies) began mass inoculation of its 669,000 inhabitants...
Pick never got to Mexico. Instead, while passing through Grand Junction, Colo., he heard so much talk about the hunt for uranium that he caught the fever himself...
Sayre's fever chart was normal (he was suffering from two painful slipped disks). But his sales charts showed the results of some remarkable medicine. In the first half of 1954, while most other appliance-makers were barely holding even, Norge sales of washing machines, driers, refrigerators, stoves and other major "white goods" were 50% ahead of last year. In July they were 72% higher, in August 126%. With Norge in the middle of a $6,100,000 expansion program, Sayre expects sales to hit $75 million this year, $100 million...