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...seems de ermined to upset the delicate balance of nature in Florida. The water hyacinth, imported by a flower lover in 1884, has clogged canals all over the southern end of the peninsula. Clearing operations cost more than $1,000,000 annually. The 30-in. Bufo toad (Bufo marinus), introduced to the Miami area in the 1950s to eat insects, now feeds on the young of native toads, and hundreds of dogs have died after biting into the Bufo's poisonous neck sacks...
Died. Bishop Wilhelmus Marinus Bekkers, 58, progressive leader of The Netherlands' largest Roman Catholic diocese at 's Hertogenbosch, who worked tirelessly for a more liberal church attitude, calling birth control a matter of conscience, and defending priests who renounced their vows in order to marry, all of which made him an urgent voice for reform during the ecumenical Council; of a brain tumor; in Tilburg, The Netherlands...
...from the days of Bismarck through the Weimar Republic-the building had bulked vacant and lifeless ever since it was gutted by fire on Feb. 27, 1933. The Nazis claimed the fire was kindled by Communists as the signal for a Red uprising, and a confused Dutch boy named Marinus Van der Lubbe was be headed for his alleged part in the crime. Since the Reichstag fire gave Hitler a pretext to gain complete control of Germany, most historians have concluded that the fire was set by the Nazis themselves, possibly even by Hermann Göring in person...
Last week, as a reflection of his broadening market, AmSeCo President James Marinus VerMeulen, 56, reported that his company's sales for the first half of 1961 were $16.5 million, up 3.7% over the same period last year. And the big profits for 1961 are still to come because 50% of AmSeCo's production each year is shipped in the summer months to meet the fall openings of schools, churches and theaters. (In 1960, with first-half sales of only $15.9 million, the company wound up the year with a record $42 million.) One Wall Street broker estimates...
...evening of Feb. 27, 1933, just a month after Hitler's coming to power, Berlin police entered the flaming Reichstag building and arrested one Marinus van der Lubbe, a shambling young Dutchman and avowed Communist who boasted that he had started the blaze himself. Using popular indignation over the fire, Hitler arrested 4,000 Communist officials that night. The next night Chancellor Hitler persuaded aging President von Hindenburg to suspend all constitutional liberties. Communist Party gatherings and newspapers were banned, and the ban was later extended to the Socialist press. In the election a week later, Hitler...