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JERUSALEM, Palestine (UP) -- Ten ships bearing 10,000 illegal Jewish immigrants were reported at sea heading for the Holy Land tonight and it was understood the Palestine government was asking London for permission to send them back to their ports of origin...
...necessarily mean meteors. Although meteors are more plentiful in midsummer than at any other time of the year, Swedish military authorities had ample reason to doubt whether the ten flashing things that passed over their country during the last two months were of celestial origin. Fragments grounded near Sundsvall were identified by experts as having come "from a bomb, probably radio-controlled." If the Swedish authorities knew who fired the bombs, they were not saying. But the public unanimously thought of Russia's new Baltic coastline. After another half-dozen things had flashed across the sky of middle Sweden...
...necessarily mean meteors. Although meteors are more plentiful in midsummer than at any other time of the year, Swedish military authorities had ample reason to doubt whether the ten flashing things that passed over their country during the last two months were of celestial origin. Fragments grounded near Sundsvall were identified by experts as having come "from a bomb, probably radio-controlled." If the Swedish authorities knew who fired the bombs, they were not saying. But the public unanimously thought of Russia's new Baltic coastline. After another half-dozen things had flashed across the sky of middle Sweden...
...disease, called onchocercosis, is apparently of African origin. First found in Guatemala, it spread into Chiapas with migrations of coffee pickers; a smaller outbreak in Oaxaca was attributed to pilgrims who had visited a Guatemalan shrine. The Inter-American highway is now opening the remote region for the first time, and epidemiologists fear that the disease will spread into the rest of Mexico. One fact which comforts Mexican researchers: though the disease has spread through the coffee-growing regions, where peons are mostly undernourished, it seldom attacks healthy, well-fed people...
Ancient Art. The origin of the enema is veiled in the mist of antiquity. The Hindu Vedas hint of its use in 2000 B.C. In the sth Century Herodotus noted that "the Egyptians clear themselves on three consecutive days every month." The Egyptians learned the art, said the Roman Naturalist Pliny, from the long-beaked ibis, who "washes the inside of his body by introducing water with his beak into the channel by which ... the residue of our food should leave...