Word: freshness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took a job with the company. Until Congress took notice, ICA headquarters in Washington seemed almost indifferent to the shenanigans in Laos, and slow to investigate thoroughly. Representative Porter Hardy Jr. of Virginia, chairman of the subcommittee, last week indignantly suggested abolition of ICA altogether, and a fresh start for foreign aid under State Department control...
Tightening Up. Under the glare of publicity on this old case, ICA has drastically tightened its procedures. They are now so tight, in fact, that the fresh team of Americans in the Laotian capital of Vientiane complains that "red tape strung about to prevent repetition, of the old mistakes has got the place tied up." Premier Phoui Sananikone, who, since coming to power in August has swept away much of Laos' old corruption and sloth, is happy over U.S. help but objects: "We are pressed for time here in Laos. We find ourselves going into interminable discussions here. Then...
...Fresh from a smashing triumph over Army's powerful Cadets, the varsity track team will face Princeton, one of the East's weaker squads, this afternoon at 1:30 in the Stadium. Even if it suffers a slight ledown after last week's all-out performance, the Crimson should have little trouble with the Tigers, and its point total should approach the 100 mark...
...College Education. Each day grief-stricken Little Doll placed fresh flowers on Big Pasquale's grave. But she had not come from a family called "Little Streaks of Lightning" (because they could fire a pistol so fast) for nothing. That day in the marketplace. Little Doll took her revenge on Tony Esposito with Big Pasquale's own big pistol. Awaiting trial in jail, she bore Big Pasquale's baby and cheerfully wrote her parents: "Think of me as a girl away at college. Sometimes I laugh and I sing...
...While Sr-89 does not remain active long enough to harm an adult, it may be a threat to children (a Canadian boy has been found with three times as much Sr-89as Sr-90 in his bones). A pregnant woman may get Sr-89 in milk or other fresh foods, so the danger is greatest to the unborn, said Dr. Schulert, "since the growing fetal skeleton reflects the diet of the mother," and the fast-growing fetus is especially vulnerable to damage from radiation...