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...Shriveled Taste Buds. By its own estimates, the bottled-water industry now sells $65 million a year worth of purified water, coolers, cups and allied equipment. About 40% of that business is concentrated in arid Southern California, partly because of the climate and partly because much of the local tap water, though safe enough to drink, would shrivel a mess sergeant's taste buds. The demand is spreading. Mountain Valley Water Co. distributes its green bottles of spring water from Hot Springs, Ark., to 40 states. And to cater to tastes brought home by tourists, President John G. Scott...
...exploit the living but immoral to exploit the dead. Even so, The Ape Woman remains a lacerating and hilarious piece of misanthropy. The wedding procession, at which the bridegroom crassly compels the bride to regale the jeering crowds with a singing commercial for herself, will make most spectators shrivel with shame for their species. And the wedding-night episode, in which the spiv heroically forces himself to remember the lady's financial attractions and forget about her hairy shoulders, is simultaneously grotesque and burlesque...
Stirred into the soil, Avadex (Monsanto Chemical Co.) kills wild oats just as seeds begin to sprout. Carbyne (Spencer Chemical Co.) is sprayed on weed seedlings causing them to turn blue and shrivel, while surrounding wheat continues to thrive. Tested on wheatfields in Can ada and the U.S., the two chemicals have been a spectacular success, sometimes boosting an area's yield by as much as 15 bu. an acre. They will get their first full-scale workout this spring on the rolling wheatland of Western Canada...
...Some footage on the Warsaw ghetto, excerpted from SS training films, that is just about as gruesome as any ever put through a projector. Reduced to less than 200 calories a day, Warsaw's Jews shrivel up to skin and bone, huddle 13 to a room, lie covered with ghastly sores on beds of rags, fall dead by the hundreds on the streets every day. The corpses lie covered with flies till the corpse crews find them, fling them on carts, dump them down a chute into a mass grave...
Died. Eugene Dennis, 56, who rose high in the U.S. Communist Party hierarchy in the "our gallant Ally" afterglow of World War II, became general secretary in 1945, and during his twelve-year reign, saw party membership shrivel from a peak of 80,000 to fewer than 20,000 under the heat generated by the cold war; of cancer; in New York City. Born Francis X. Waldron Jr. of a middle-class Seattle family, Dennis joined the party as a youthful instructor, served as a Red agent in Europe, China and South Africa, became the leader of U.S. Communists after...