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...down on a ten-room Hollywood house owned by Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel, longtime friend to bigtime gangsters, was sued by him for the balance of $85,000. She explained that the deal depended on Bugsy's eliminating all the house's "termites, fungus and dry rot." Her claim: "Siegel has refused to spend more than $250 for elimination of termites. It's going to cost a great deal more than that...
...example, when Marquis wheat was introduced, it stood off stem rusts but developed "head blighter scab"; Durham wheat overcame scab but succumbed to root rot. Kota, the next wheat hope, yielded to smut. Stakman, collaborating with the Department of Agriculture, has developed hardier & hardier wheat. But No. 56 has baffled him for 16 years...
...studded with the bronze heads of wolves and lions, marbles, mosaics, porphyry and precious metals. According to one legend they sank to the bottom of Lake Nemi with all hands aboard except Caligula, who was something of a practical joker. According to another legend they were stripped, allowed to rot and sink by successors to whom even the memory of Caligula was odious. For some 1900 years they remained faintly visible in about 60 feet of water. From the 15th Century on, people tried to raise them, merely succeeded in damaging them with grappling hooks. From the 16th Century...
...assume that they and the Frenchmen of France will necessarily judge Gaullism's deeds and plans in the same way. France, for example, does not forget the decadence of her "free" (and freely bought) prewar press, the wartime sins of the Vichy press. Nor has she forgotten the rot in the frame of her prewar democracy...
...almost singlehanded, saved the U.S. from a critical magnesium shortage (TIME, March 20), came a resounding snort. In Manhattan's Biltmore Hotel, after receiving the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Chemists, he cried: "We are being warned against the dangers of freedom. ... All of which is rot. We are being told that ... we must ease out of controls and that chaos would follow their sudden ending. By the very nature of our present controls we cannot ease out of them. We can only ease into permanent control. . . . Whatever may be the seeming dangers of throwing...