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...propaganda, money and arms." The subversion airlift also figured prominently in the questions and answers at Kennedy's press conference two days later. The key to the airlift, obviously, is Mexico. And while the Mexicans may pass on the airport mug shots, stamp passports and occasionally confiscate a load of propaganda, they have done nothing to stop the flights, or to stem the flood of people pouring into the country bound for the Cuban island dictatorship-and bound to make trouble at home...
...were shortchanged because payments were based on outmoded cost-of-living standards. Thus a mother with four children would collect only $64 a month for rent and $3 a day for food. Moreover, the committee pointed out. rehabilitation efforts were virtually nonexistent, and welfare workers labored under an average load of 152 cases each, although the Federal Government recommended a maximum...
...believed to be charged particles that have been speeded up by magnetic fields that are known to exist be tween the stars. But though this theory serves well enough for ordinary rays, the Milky Way galaxy to which the sun and its planets belong lacks magnetism strong enough to load 10²° electron-volts on a lone proton. Nothing else in the galaxy, such as an exploding supernova, could do the job either...
...surgeons elsewhere have seen scores more, mostly around military bases. For whereas the organized fast-draw clubs, encouraged by the firearms industry, make sure that their would-be Wyatt Earps and Marshal Dillons use only blank ammunition or wax bullets, too many young servicemen practice the game with full-load ammunition complete with lead slug. For economy's sake, they usually content themselves with a .22-caliber weapon. This can do plenty of damage, but a heavier weapon is far worse. One of Captain Duffy's patients used a .38, which broke his leg and left it partly...
...Councillors Eff and Gee are, (assisted by the talents of Timothy Mayer and Michael Ehrhardt), his smoothest drama. But there is too much mummery, too many blood red bubbles in the well and strange noises in the night, for the midsection to cohere; it collapses under a load of unnecessary mysticism and unnecessary explication which the Stranger (Philip Kerr) most represents...