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Shell wants to go deeper and drill other wells around Eagle Springs' perimeter before it claims a big field. But Nevada was already in the grip of an oil fever. By week's end, some 2,000,000 acres had been filed on, bringing more than $1,000,000 into Reno's land office...
CROCODILE FEVER (293 pp.)-Lawrence Earl-Knopf...
...Blacks" as a "gilded African," and sent 90 ships and 40,000 veterans of the Egyptian campaign to retake Saint-Domingue. By treachery, the French captured Toussaint and shipped him off to France to die in a moutain prison. But in the end, black troops and yellow fever smashed the French for good...
...began with what the Vatican paper, L'Osservatore Romano, called "a slight indisposition." Pius XII, close to his 78th birthday (March 2), had been afflicted with an attack of hiccups, at first sporadic, then almost incessant and accompanied by a slight fever. But he carried on through his normal day: rising at about 6, saying Mass, and working until near 2 in the morning...
...special classes of 20 and with sym pathetic teachers, they began to pick up their three Rs rapidly. One ten-year-old who had been stricken with rheumatic fever and missed a year of school gained a year's credit in reading, picked up eight months in all his other studies; another child, whose insecure home life had made him hate school, gained 1½ years in all his work, now argues to go to school even when he is sick. By Christmas vacation, teachers could report that the 100 students had doubled their proficiency in reading, spelling, arithmetic...