Word: lice
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there has never been such a run on flowing robes, phylacteries and false beards as there is in the studios just now. Prop men from Paramount are scouring Egypt for frogs to make a likely plague (Exodus 8:31, for non-biting insects to substitute for lice (Exodus 8:16), and they are making the necessary preparations to turn the Nile to blood (Exodus 7:19)-all for The Ten Commandments. In Hollywood Columbia executives are busy scanning six weeks' worth of background shots (using 17,500 Egyptian extras) for Joseph and His Brethren, and laying plans to follow...
...Kyes discovered that a mere 300 accounted for more than half its dollar purchases. Said Kyes to the Pentagon generals: "You've been walking all around this elephant. Let's concentrate on saving money on these 300 items first. We'll worry about the nits and lice later." Among the biggest cost items were aircraft engines. The Air Force found that they had been improved so much that their life expectancy was far greater than realized, hence fewer spare engines were needed. Saving: $500 million...
...nits and lice" also came in for attention. By redesigning a foot-powder can, the Army cut unit costs from 16? to a nickel for a total saving of $275,000. Wilson and Kyes found that the military carried in inventory no fewer than 5,000 different types of electronic tubes and 800 categories of screw drivers; on their orders, tube types were cut to 192, and screw drivers...
...Philadelphia press and radio had made restrained mention of the story, a crowd of 50.000 flowed into Fairmount Park. Only a few claimed to see anything unusual, and most of their stories tended to conflict. Some of the visitors left money offerings ($2,300 so far). Park po lice took charge of the money temporarily, not knowing quite what to do with it. Last week, though diminished, crowds were still drifting into the park. The office of Philadelphia's Archbishop John F. O'Hara had no comment to make on the reported vision. But Father Nicholas Lazzaro, whose...
Summing up their torture techniques, Dr. Mayo charged the communists with exploiting not only physical pain, but also intense psychological pressure. He said, "The total picture presented is one of human beings reduced to a status lower than that of animals' filthy, full of lice; festered wounds full of maggots; their sickness regulated to a point just short of death . . . isolated, faced with squads of trained interrogators, bullied incessantly, deprived of sleep and browbeaten into mental anguish." But always, in return for signing a confession of having conducted germ warfare, the prisoners were promised an end to torture, good treatment...