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What the unnamed "traveler" reported was that south and east Asia, populated by more than one-fourth of the people in the world, was ripe for a Communist har vesting unless the U.S. bestirred itself...
...trapping the males does little good. Each female, after one encounter with an untrapped male, lays up to 300 eggs under the skins of fruit. The entomologists have not yet found a lure to attract females, which seem to take keen interest in nothing but ripe fruit...
...Bangkok last week, Marshal Phibun Songgram's cabinet fretted and worried over Ho Chi Minh. Strongman Songgram urged immediate recognition of Bao Dai, thereby putting Siam firmly in the anti-Communist camp. Foreign Minister Phot Sarasin objected. The time, he said, was not yet ripe to line up openly against Ho Chi Minh. Some 30,000 Indo-Chinese Red guerrillas had taken refuge from the French army just inside the Siamese border. The unwarlike Bangkok government had no defense against a force so potentially dangerous. The cabinet finally agreed not to recognize...
...which he was paid tribute by some 1,300 admirers, including such friends of varied political persuasions as James A. Farley, Harold Ikes, Philosopher John Dewey, Adolph A. Berle Jr., Union Head David Dubinsky. "If you teach, you retire at 65. But in politics, you're just ripe to be chairman of a Senate committee...
...were untroubled by wealth. Land was held in common; meals were eaten in community dining halls. Deeply religious but not ascetics, the Amanists lived well on their 26,000 acres of rich farmland, sold their surplus to the outside world. Their hickory-smoked Westphalian-style hams and ripe Schwartenmagen cheeses became famed throughout Iowa...