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...Green Hell to the east is a rain-catching jungle bigger than Texas that supports a scant 13% of the people, some of them aboriginal headshrinkers...
They won a new five-year term with an indicated House of Commons majority of 50 or more seats, against the scant 17-seat margin they had in the last Parliament...
...million-dollar legs and five-cent heads." But by the time the field reached the first check point in Framingham, the tangle had unwound. The nickel noggins had dropped back; a Staten Island, N.Y. schoolteacher named William Welsh was striding easily in the lead. Close on the pace, a scant 100 yards back, came Eino Pulkkinen, a smooth-running Finn, and Nick Costes, a Natick, Mass, schoolteacher who finished ninth last year. Almost unnoticed, in 13th place was Hideo Hamamura, 26, a light (132 lbs.) little Japanese clerk. Last time he had run himself out in the early stages...
...suit his inclinations (TIME, April 20, 1953), there have been more and more reports of physically normal males asking surgeons for similar operations. Such surgery, prohibited in the U.S., effects no sex transformation; male sex organs are merely removed, and hormones administered.* Information about these operations has been scant, but some U.S. doctors feel that surgeons abroad are prompted more by pity for their patients than by facts about their disorders...
...have been gradually returning since the U.S. realized that breaking them up had left Japan without foundation for its postwar economy. The imposed MacArthur constitution still stands as the code by which the government governs. But it is subject to the governors' interpretation of phrases which often have scant practical meaning or attraction for the Japanese mind...