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...that Latin-American coffee drinkers are in much the same fix as their North American neighbors. In the past two months, the price of high-grade coffee in Rio groceries has leaped from 81? to $1.07 a Ib.; some Brazilians have gritted their teeth and turned to a hitherto unmentionable beverage called tea. In coffee-exporting Costa Rica. President José Figueres declared roundly: "Our country's No. 1 problem today is our coffee shortage." The local retail price had just climbed to 90? a Ib., and Figueres had tried in vain to buy some low-grade Brazilian...
...team sports one man who may change the score, though. That's six foot four inch Joe Wetzler, who has scored 110 points so far this season--for a 22 point per games average. The fast-breaking Huskies racked over 100 points last Saturday to beat Maine, and the hitherto weak Crimson defense may have troubles stopping this kind of racehorse basketball...
Decked out in a decorous black tailored suit with lace cuffs, Christine (né George) Jorgensen, a year after the news broke of the "sex conversion" in Copenhagen, let the world in on two secrets hitherto kept under wraps. The Jorgensen measurements (made by Christine's own tape): height, 5 ft. 6½ in.; weight, 115 Ibs.; bust, 34 in.; waist, 25 in.; hips, 36 in. Christine's favorite man: Sexpert Dr. Alfred C. (Sexual Behavior in the Human Female) Kinsey. Said Christine: "He proved that a lot of things that we think abnormal are really very normal...
...facts and figures about anti-government articles Churchill had written for foreign papers during the '30s. He went on to quote a blustery article Sir Winston had written 40 years ago in defense of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill. "This right honorable gentleman," interrupted Sir Winston, "has hitherto been trying to hide behind me. Now I gather he is endeavoring to hide behind my father." The duel came to a sudden end when Sir Winston had to leave the floor, apparently for a room which in Britain always bears his initials. "As I see the right honorable gentleman about...
...have discovered a hitherto latent or dormant fissionable quality "X" of energy, electricity, power, etc. Example: said quality or X maintains that no original nor initial unit or source of energy, electricity, power, etc., can be truly split nor divided into any fraction of the whole and when split or divided into two or more divisions each said division plus my new invention instantly becomes a separate and complete unit or source of energy, electricity or power each the equal of the said original for doing work...