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During that war, at the ripe old age of 19, I had, as did many other young American G.I.s, the expense-paid tour of Britain, France and Germany. The one thing that has always stuck in my memory is the way the industrious Germans began to rebuild their homes and factories while the dust of their destruction was not yet settled. Let's give the Germans and Minister Strauss the nuclear warheads and the choice of when to use them. The Russians would not be so foolish as to provoke a conflict with a strong military and economic alliance...
...form with us a plan of church union . . . Any other Churches which find that they can accept both the principles and plan would also be warmly invited to unite with us." The religious issue in the recent presidential election, suggested Blake, showed that the time is not only ripe but overripe. "Americans more than ever see the churches of Jesus Christ as competing social groups pulling and hauling, propagandizing and pressuring for their own organizational advantages...
...pectin daily for three weeks lowered blood cholesterol levels by an average of ten milligrams-"a modest but significant amount." For Americans who want to keep the doctor away, Keys added a familiar note: his 15-gram daily dose corresponds roughly to the amount of pectin found in two ripe apples...
Times were ripe for student radicalism in an America and a Cambridge just emerging from the Depression. But John F. Kennedy was by no means a radical. He was just a nice sort of chap who roomed in Weld...
...votes in a Democratic primary runoff election that will surely plop him into the U.S. House of Representatives next January, Louisiana's ex-Governor Earl Long, a hard-living 65, was borne by stretcher from victory to a hospital. His self-diagnosis: ptomaine poisoning from eating some very ripe pork. Drawled Ole Earl of his triumph over Incumbent Harold McSween in the back-country Eighth District race: "Ah don't think it helped McSween with all that about mah bein' crazy...