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...swelled from the Calle Presidente Zayas below. Then an excited aide rushed to the Mayor, whispered that recalcitrant, anti-Batista councilmen were rumping it in the Municipal Building across the street. Outside the noise grew louder. Someone broke a window. Someone aimed an uppercut at the offender's jaw. Soon the air was full of fists...
Cornelius Arzberger, a Commercial Solvents Corp. researcher, cultured from Louisiana cane-field soil a new bacterial species which ferments sugar to produce industrially useful solvents. He gave it the jaw-cracking name of Clostridium saccharo butyl acetonicum liquefaciens. Then he tried to patent it, as a plant. The patent examiner threw out his claim...
Dale H. Maple, 20, is a clean-cut U. S. boy, with hazel eyes, white, even teeth, a firm, straight jaw. Born in San Diego, Calif, to middle-class U. S. parents, he went to San Diego High School, shone in his studies, showed talent in music. A devout Catholic, he attended church every Sunday. In school he studied German, became interested in German culture. He graduated from high school...
...went among the poor to show them his interest. The pressure on him to order murderous but militarily wasteful retaliation on Berlin was tremendous, but he-held himself in. On one of his tours the dispossessed shouted: "What about reprisals? These were our homes. What about Berlin?" The Churchill jaw set grimly, the underlip went out, and the Prime Minister growled: "Don't worry, they'll get it back." Later one of his colleagues said: "Churchill is a very full-blooded gentleman. Hitler has often mentioned the shortness of his patience, but Churchill's patience, as well...
...continued on third page following) call him Abu-el-Hanak ("The Man With The Jaw"). He won their admiration and confidence by leading bands of Iraqi and Bedouin tribesmen against raiders from Saudi Arabia in 1924. Quiet, studious, slender, stooped, Major Glubb spoke Arabic even better than Lawrence did, was believed to have even more influence than Lawrence...