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...examining the progress of leaf decay under the skeleton, botanists found how long the body had been there. Their estimate checked with that of entomologists (insect specialists). Maggotts leave eggs on their prey, and learning the age of these gave the bug men an accurate estimate of how long the young woman had been dead when found...
...Jeanne Perron, an amiable reformed fence known to most of her friends as Aunt Jeanne. Her little niece, Denise LeRoy, 12, soon moved in to join Sylvie's children, and in time the family circle was swelled by a handsome young Arab, Abdellah Saoulite, who had fallen prey to Sylvie's eyes. A few months later, Sylvie was pregnant again...
...suffering . . . One hundred thousand million dollars would be a modest estimate of the whole . . . [But] if the treaty validated . . . monetary reparations claims against Japan . . . the incentive of her people would be destroyed and they would sink into a misery of body and spirit which would make them an easy prey to . . . totalitarian demagogues . . . Such a treaty . . . would promote disunity among many of the allied powers. There would be bitter competition for . . . an illusory pot of gold...
...began the "fight for peace." The Cominform called it "the pivot of the entire activity of the Communist Parties." The cry of peace could oppose the keeping of U.S. troops in Europe; it could stir up workers by blaming low wages and high prices on rearmament programs; it could prey on mothers whose sons must fight, on men of God who hated war, on the indifferent and the despairing, on the timid who feared that arming for self-defense was provocative...
...they would run into trouble if they tried to deny him Jordan's throne in favor of Naif. There are other signs that Talal, for his part, realizes he must have the British: without their subsidy and support, tiny, barren Jordan would become a fifth-rate country, easy prey for a powerful neighbor. The London Observer reported that Talal had recently signed a document assuring Britain that he would carry on his father's policies. When his plane stopped in Athens on the way from Switzerland, Talal told reporters he would continue "the same old friendly relations...