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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tommy was playing on the lawn. "That's my Ronnie," cried Anna Thompson. She was positive, and prepared to prove it. "My Ronnie had webbed toes," she said. An attendant removed a shoe and sock; the toes of Tommy's right foot were webbed. She smiled triumphantly. "The other was the same!" she said, and, sure enough, the toes on Tommy's left foot also were webbed. Tommy had blue eyes, and his ears lay flat, like Ronnie...
...Said the FAO report: "1948 marked the ending of acute food scarcities in Europe ... A major rehabilitation in agriculture has been achieved." By 1951, the delegates predicted, most Europeans would be eating as much (though not quite so well) as they did before...
Politely, Tuan asked the nine to come back into the Nationalist fold or else clear out of the embassy. Three eventually changed sides again, reaffirmed their allegiance to the Kuomintang. Six remained adamant. To deal with them, said Tuan, reinforcements would arrive this week from the still loyal missions in London, Brussels and The Hague. Said Counselor George Mong (the rebels' ringleader): "Tuan is one of my oldest and dearest friends. If, in the end, he tosses me out, there will be nothing personal...
...services. What happened to Field after that is uncertain. In 1948 ex-Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers testified that Noel Field had once headed a Communist "apparatus" in the State Department. Last month Hungary's ex-Foreign Minister Laszlo Rajk, who was himself executed last week (see FOREIGN NEWS), said Field was a U.S. intelligence agent who had helped blackmail him into becoming "a servant of American imperialism...
...poor Scottish family who worked his way through Glasgow University, Orr started as a theological student but got interested in the new dogma of Darwinism instead. Soon Orr became convinced that food or the lack of it was the reason for most human ills. "He began," one writer said, "tracking down scientific clues like a detective on the trail of a mass murderer." In World War II an Orr survey provided the basis for British food rationing. He never stopped lecturing people on eating the right kind of food; once he complained that he could get farmers interested in feeding...