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...residence, he scribbled a hasty postscript on the envelope that held his message. He warned his fellow priests to be skeptical if they heard that he had resigned, or had "confessed." Even if they were shown his authentic signature on a confession, they should consider his signing as the result of "human frailty," i.e., the result of his inability to withstand Communist torture...
Fighting trypanosomiasis by attacking the flies with insecticides has never been wholly effective. Some flies always survived and quickly re-established the fly population. As a result, the whole great African area (including Kenya, Uganda and Sudan) has only about 16 million head of scrubby, inferior cattle. Even these hardy beasts often die of the disease. David Rees-Williams, British Undersecretary for Colonies, says of Antrycide: "It will enable Africa to carry much more cattle than Argentina, where there are now about 33 million head...
Green Hair falls short not because it hasan idea but because it has one too many (it tries to preach against both war and intolerance), and because it labors so clumsily to 'cram its ideas into the mold of "entertainment." As a result, the message seems as contrived and insincere as a singing commercial, and just about as entertaining...
...filling the gap between the Sumerian palace and the Civil War White House Millia Davenport devoted seven years. The result of her labor of love will impress the couturier and fascinate the housewife. The Book of Costume is also more instructive than many a history book, because it does not stop at tracking flares and gussets down through the ages. It is a history of the ornaments used by-men & women to add the finishing touches to their apparel-enameled watches, canes, necklaces, lap dogs...
...entire industrial plant of the South was thus brought to a standstill. Cities soon had no products to exchange with the farmers for food, and the result has been an ever-increasing urban black-market in agricultural products...