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...Some] refugees were what the Japanese call 'repatriates'. . . . Without warning, some hundreds of harmless pedestrians, hawkers and beggars are rounded up in the streets of an occupied city . . . then systematically starved in one of the worst sort of concentration camps. The daily ration consists of rice gruel cooked with bicarbonate of soda (to economize on firewood) which is served without salt, flavoring, or other addition...
...attorney, his aide-de-camp, a nephew, and the President's youngest son, 25-year-old Princeton man Fernando Lopez Michelsen. They all got dressed, arranged themselves comfortably about the sitting room and tried to appear at ease. The President and his party chatted pleasantly on harmless topics, watching the rifles...
...bleachers, sat quietly, second after second, watching the high-wire performers of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show On Earth. They breathed the circus smells of peanuts and tigers, in the hot afternoon air, and listened to the thumping circus music. Some of them watched the harmless-looking little fire crawling up the canvas...
...five years of research, J. J. Denny, Drs. Wilmot Douglas Robson and Dudley Arthur Irwin, working for Ontario's Mclntyre-Porcupine (gold) Mines, found a strange treatment which worked on guinea pigs: fine aluminum dust. When inhaled, aluminum dust forms a jelly around the silica particles, making them harmless...
...found that it killed bugs. Its first test came during a plague of potato beetles in Switzerland in 1939. DDT stopped the beetles dead. Concentrated DDT is toxic to men and animals when swallowed, but in the weak dilutions used for sprays and dusts, it has been found harmless to the skin...