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After six months of studying and experimenting at Monte Carlo's world-famed Oceanographic Institute, Bombard concluded that limited quantities of sea water (not more than a quart a day) plus fluids pressed from raw fish can supply the body's need for water without harm to the system. He also concluded that fish contain all the nutrients necessary to health except vitamin C, which can be obtained from plankton. Bombard saw no reason why a man equipped with fishing tackle and fine-mesh nets for gathering plankton could not obtain from the sea enough food and water...
...Roddy-Eden, 29, after 13 days of marriage. Reporters interviewing the unhappy couple came away with the clearest account to date of the Manville marriage system. The trouble, said Mrs. Manville No. 9, began with a quarrel on the twelfth day of their honeymoon after Tommy had drunk two quarts of gin and a quart of Dubonnet at a single sitting. The trouble, said Tommy, was with Anita. How about wife No. 10? After the details of this divorce are cleaned up, said Manville, he might consider marrying Anita's twin sister. "I am probably very much in love...
Meanwhile, the Class of '52, a quart of a century away from their big reunion were having a time last right, to clustered in the Lowell Courtyard an dressed in formal attire, almost 1000 them and their dates danced to the music of Blue Barron and his orchestra had a midnight supper, and stayed a until 2 in the morning savoring that last nights at college Today they will file into the Tercentenary Theatre to Class Day exercised, and top the day of with a moonlight cruise aboard the Boston Belle in 'Boston Harbor...
...appear to be "ordinary, well-trained, neat, efficient people rather than a scurvy lot of misfits," 6) tone down one character's references to the "morons' who run the Navy, 7) present one episode, in which Queeg all but turns the ship upside down looking for a quart of! pilfered strawberries, as more the work oi a madman than of an Annapolis...
...subsidies from ?410 million down to ?250 million, a slash of 39%; prices will be allowed to rise in the marketplace accordingly. It means, Butler reckoned, that the food bill of every Briton will rise immediately by about 21? a week. Sample increases: milk from 14? to 15? a quart; stewing beef from 23? to 28? a pound; bread from...