Word: madagascar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Formalin for Posterity. About two weeks ago, Dr. Smith got a cablegram from Captain Eric Hunt, former British naval officer, amateur zoologist, and master of a small, coastal-trading vessel. A coelacanth had been caught, said Hunt, in the Mozambique Channel near Madagascar. Dr. Smith had better come quick, before it turned to mush like the other...
...remedy this situation, 300 delegates from 25 lands gathered in Paris last week for the 24th International Congress Against Alcoholism. Flower-hatted old teapots from English vicarages, prune-juice-quaffing prohibitionists representing teetotalers from Finland to Madagascar, they seemed to divide into two categories: 1) the All-Drys, mainly British and Scandinavian; 2) the Half-Wets, preponderantly French...
...death must be joked about. For more than a century since its founding by King Louis Philippe in 1831, the men of the Foreign Legion, the Kepis Blancs, have fought and died for France in almost continuous campaigning in Algeria, in the Crimea, in Mexico, Tonkin, Dahomey, the Sudan, Madagascar, Morocco, the Dardanelles, Syria, Serbia and France itself. In six years of fighting the Communists, more than 7,000 Legionnaires have died in Indo-China alone. "You Legionnaires," a French general once promised them, "you are soldiers who were meant to die, and I am sending you where...