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...believed in spirits and magic spells, although they were Moslems. Laye is firmly convinced that his mother had magic powers, tells how even the witch doctors feared her and the crocodiles refused to attack her. When he left home to go to school, she gave him a magic brain potion to sip before he began to study. It consisted of honey mixed with the water used to wash Koran texts from prayer boards. The stuff must have worked because Laye wound up first in his class. His childhood memoir is eloquent proof that even gifted young Africans have...
...Lucienne Mogard. is as cold and sharp as a scalpel. When they entice Ravinel's wife Mireille to Nantes, their object is murder and their motive is 2,000,000 francs of insurance money. As a killer, Ravinel proves tender and compassionate. After Mireille drinks a carefully prepared potion, her eyes close and Ravinel tearfully helps to lower her inert body into a bathtub full of water. "Don't worry, Mireille," he says. "You won't feel anything ... I swear I never wanted to do you any harm...
...slipped back into the hospital with a secret potion, put three drops of it into a glass of water and gave it to his wife. He did the same the next day. Her sight began to return...
...core of the trouble seems to be that all consultations take place within a few weeks. To handle all the freshmen, departments must send their full staffs into action; and often the meetings must be rushed to accommodate every student. Yet, there is no mysterious potion in the air of late April that makes it the best time for decisions on concentration. Many freshmen, in fact, know in September what their major will be. Practically all have a good idea by February. The interview period could easily start carrier, permitting Faculty men to hold longer conferences with students...
...reactionary." (Though he named no names, Russell's listeners easily conjured up visions of such Americans for Democratic Action-style Democrats as Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey and New York's Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr.) "There are those who would have us drink of the fatal potion of national state socialism," said Russell. "We must resolutely reject their enticements...