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...pick an orchid in the back yard of the house on bomb-battered Leveriza Street where TIME'S Manila correspondents live, but you have to lug some chlorinated water home if you want to brush your teeth. There are half a dozen bullet holes in the walls, and the staff of five TIME & LiFErs there had to get along without lights at night for quite a stretch...
City officials have done what they could. They condemned the sale of fresh fruits (which might carry the bacteria), dumped boatloads of peaches in the river, where children drowned diving for them. They made a dent in garbage and "night soil" accumulations by having laborers lug the filth away on foot. They appropriated over $2,000,000 for burying corpses which had been left to decompose. They began construction of a 6,000-ton reservoir...
Just as she used to lug in illegitimate children (to the unconcealed horror of conservative NBC), she is now pushing forward such delicate plot material as amputation cases...
...height of its production, Canol expensively puts out no more oil and gasoline in a year (1,000,000 bbls.) than ten tankers could lug to Alaska. This week Congressional leaders learned that General Somervell was going to abandon the field, charge the whole business off to the "waste of war." Next step: Canada will have a chance to bid in the plant at a knockdown price. If Canada refuses it, Canol will be put on the block...
...Internationalist John Foster Dulles said last week in Cleveland (see Foreign Relations), that the U.S. people still do not quite know what they mean when they say that they are ready to lug a full load in world affairs. But every visible indication of U.S. opinion shows not only that they do say so, but that in recent weeks they have found a specific, all-important point of agreement in their ways of saying so. They have increasingly agreed that the use of power in "power politics" is 1) necessary, and 2) not inevitably bad. Some of the indications...