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...leaf in a gallon of any good, mild barley water. But when U.S. prohibitionists heard that the Army was issuing it to the front-line soldiers in Korea at the rate of a can a day, they reacted almost as if G.I.s were being taught the opium habit.* As a result, the Department of Defense nervously directed General MacArthur to cut off the free beer issue immediately...
...careful letter and gave each pupil a copy to take home. From now on, said the letter, atomic bombing drills would be a regular part of the 1950-51 school program. The drills had been thoroughly worked out, would be repeated so often "that immediate response will become a habit" (e.g., "drop immediately to the ground or floor, face down . . ."). Of course, added Superintendent Stoddard, "we sincerely hope that all of our plans and procedures . . . will never have to be put into actual...
...surprise, we are often quoted in newspapers in Argentina and Portuguese territory where we are banned from the newsstands-e.g., the Azores Diario reprinted our Stalin cover story. Less gratifying is a habit, practiced by such papers as the London Daily Worker, of taking one sentence out of context from TIME and using it as a propaganda springboard...
Kostelanetz' easy-to-take versions of classics and pop tunes soon made him as much of a habit with a section of the U.S. public as Coca-Cola, cigarettes and convertible coupes. To catch his listeners' jaded ears, he mixed the flashiest symphonic devices of conservatory and concert hall with new electronic tricks picked up from radio engineers. With the help of a battery of microphones turned up or down for the proper blend ("We couldn't do it without the microphone"), Kostelanetz' music took on "sounds and sonorities that didn't exist before...
After war's end, he was made president of the Dodge division, has had a finger in more & more corporate pies and a habit of working at high-compression speed. If Chrysler President K. T. Keller, who will be 65 this fall, should decide to retire, it looked as if Tex Colbert would be among the leading candidates to succeed...