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Last week, Democrats had to admit that it would take more than the voice and the Roosevelt name to win the governorship in November. F.D.R.'s eldest son James emerged from California's primary as winner of the Democratic nomination all right, but even in the flush of victory he scarcely looked like a real threat to Republican Governor Earl Warren...
Dried Meat is popular and well-regarded among his kind. When flush, he gives away fish and beans to favela dwellers. He dances a graceful samba. Sentimental and gallant, he has the names of his two sisters tattooed on his chest, and the names of half a dozen other girls on his-arms. He can also be masterful with the dames. Once a certain Dolores talked too much when the police were listening. Dried Meat shaved her head; everybody in the favelas thought it served her right...
...decided, was to cut down the sodium taken in with food, to less than a gram a day (practicable only on a hospital diet). Thus, metabolic acids could take up the sodium already in the body, and give the kidneys enough water so that they could work properly and flush out the sodium salts through the urine-"using water as a medicine, which it is." By 1937 Dr. Schemm was telling Montana colleagues that his treatment was a success. "Restriction of water," he said, "is useless, harmful and a cause of suffering." It was 1942 before he published his findings...
...20th Century Davy Crockett in El Paso, read two chapters of his never-completed autobiography and listened to such Thoreau-like observations as "Property is a handicap to man." After Ben died in 1936. at 79, Dobie started back-trailing on his life in an effort to flush the truth out of the thicket of legend which had grown up around his name. The result is a briery, humor-speckled portrait of a roughhewn U.S. eccentric who lived only for the kill...
They had to be shown everything: how to turn on a faucet, how to flush a toilet. When they were told to take showers, one boy took his with all his clothes on. When they were served ham on their first day, not one child would touch it until a teacher explained in Navajo that it was cooked meat...