Word: fitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...known to the trade, retrieved his dog and walked calmly back to the waiting room. Last week, however, he kept his'last rendezvous; the cops jumped him, just after he had handed half an ounce of pure heroin to one Arthur Ricardi. Peddler Rubino fell into a writhing fit on the station-house floor, while Customer Ricardi (see cut) watched him with the telltale yawn of the addict who needs a shot. After an injection of heroin, Rubino talked...
...book, Physician Winter tries to filter Hubbard's strange mixture and pick out the scraps fit for human consumption. He rejects such gimmicks as the mental "file clerk," invented by Hubbard to chase about in the mind in search of mislaid impressions, and scoffs at the Hubbardians' "Guk" program. "Guk" was a mixture of vitamins and glutamic acid which was supposed to make dianetics subjects "run better...
...Needless to say," Lubin concluded, "the Soviet Union has not seen fit to contribute a penny [to rebuilding] in Korea...
Violent Reaction. U.S. military production desperately needs titanium as a substitute for columbium, a rare metal which makes steel fit to stand the 1,600º hellfire inside a jet-engine combustion chamber. Almost all the world's supply of columbium ore comes from primitive mines in Nigeria; the U.S. was able to get only 1,727,000 Ibs. last year. Since world production of columbium cannot be stepped up for another three years, the U.S. has turned to titanium. Luckily, it is one of the most abundant minerals in the earth's crust, and the U.S. abounds...
Then there's the matter of headlights. The modern car has a small, self-contained unit that will fit anything from a Jeep to a Cadillao 75. Among older cars class and headlight size go together. When one gets into the higher grade of vehicles the huge lenses and reflectors in their polished housing look like something borrowed from a light cruiser. No mistaking the proles for their betters, even at night...