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Even to U.S. citizens long inured to political stinks, the Cox Committee's investigation of the Federal Communications Commission was becoming slightly nauseous last week. When Congress set up the committee to review the functions of FCC, backbiting Gene ("Goober") Cox-then (and still) charged by FCC with accepting an illegal fee from a Georgia broadcasting station-wangled himself the chairmanship. At the first public hearing Chairman Cox promised "an impartial and wholly constructive" investigation...
...drunkard can be made to vomit every time he takes a drink, he has a better than even chance of curing himself −at least for a long time −of drunkenness. This nauseous conclusion was published in the American Journal of the Medical Sciences last week, by Drs. Walter Lyle Voegtlin, Frederick Lemere, and colleagues of Seattle's Shadel Sanitarium, who carried out conditioning experiments with 827 alcoholics during the last five years...
...Cabo de Buena Esperanza was no improvement over the Alsina. The Cabo ships are called "whited sepulchers" in South America, a reference to the smart white paint of their top sides and the filth, crowding, misery and disease inside their hulls. The whole ship stank, the food was nauseous, the ship's hospital used dirty newspapers for sheets. On the slow voyage across the Atlantic two more refugees died...
...markings in order to resemble unpalatable or poisonous varieties). Studies of 200 kinds of insects eaten by U.S. birds show that none of the palatable varieties is conspicuously marked. Among California salamanders, those eaten by snakes are concealingly colored and hide by day, and those which snakes avoid as nauseous are loudly marked and go about in daylight...
...Spanish. The picture of war-wracked Spain has an authentic air--there are heroes, villains, and likewise bunglers on both sides. Several brilliant "set pieces" dot the pages of the book: an unbearably bloody and terrifying description of the start of the Revolution in a small village, a nauseous discourse on the "smell of death," and three exciting love episodes. But it is the spiritually tortured character of Robert Jordan that makes this a book peculiarly meant for this world of today...