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South Africa's bootleg native drink, skokiaan (subject of a recent U.S. hit tune), is usually mixed by "skokiaan queens" who know how to spike it with enough methyl alcohol to provide the jolt that thrills but does not kill. The balance is so easily upset that natives often go mad or blind from the skokiaan they buy in the shebeens of the native quarters...
...according to experts of the Office of Naval Research, no ejection-seat and parachute combination can save a pilot flying more than 1,900 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft. Less speed would be fatal at lower altitudes, because the thicker air would hit the pilot with a harder decelerating jolt...
Confusion, though, followed the Dodgers. Partly as a gesture to jolt New York State taxpayers into helping them to build a new stadium, they crossed the Hudson to Jersey City for a second "opening game," the first of seven regular-season "home" games they will play there this year. Somebody gave Jersey City Mayor Bernard J. Berry a ball to throw out. Came time for the historic throw. "Mr. Mayor, the ball," an aide prompted. "The ball?" echoed His Honor with surprise. "I gave it to some kid." The game itself, complicated by the poor playing surface in Roosevelt Stadium...
...including what enthusiasts scornfully call "daisy-pickers," or people who simply enjoy a day in the country via the B & M. Enthusiasts came not only from Boston for this special trip. One man traveled for 16 hours from Detroit just to be at North Station for the first, steamy jolt. Others hailed from Washington, Syracuse, Philadelphia and St. John, New Brunswick, while one section of the train was full of insurgent New Yorkers...
...indignant letter to the Worker ran: "[You] have followed successive flip-flops with amazing jolt-proof gymnastic dexterity, without ever being at a loss for editorial words. The doctors were plotting, the doctors were not; Beria was in, Beria was out; Tito was out, Tito was in; Yugoslavia was a dictatorship with ruthless suppression of opposition, Yugoslavia is finding its independent path to socialism; Stalin is up, Stalin is down . . . The Daily Worker editors had carved out a position even more unassailable than the Soviet leaders have claimed for them selves. The Soviet leaders admitted to previous mistakes. The Daily...