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...declaring that "the boundary line has always run along the Zarumilla River" Senor Alzamora takes the stand always taken by Peru on the boundary question, a stand never accepted by Ecuador. Tumbes is the smallest section of the disputed area, but it is definitely disputed...
From onetime richest Macfadden magazine, Physical Culture had come gradually to smell of must and stale sweat. Its newsstand circulation fell to a senile 36,156, the smallest in the Macfadden tribe. But Oldster Macfadden, stubborn and misty-eyed, always remembered that Physical Culture 42 years ago started him on his climb to fortune, publicized him as a muscle messiah. As long as he had the say he flatly refused to turn it into a beauty magazine...
There Habe experienced for the first time (it was to become daily breath) some of the strange poetry of war: "I was suddenly close to the smallest and lowest creatures, the insects and worms, everything that crawled and writhed humbly and flatly on the ground." The worms went on about their business while the shells exploded (they are, as Darwin learned, quite deaf), the bees hummed, and now and then, between explosions, a bird sang. "It sometimes seemed that we were already in our graves, half alive and half dead: and most curiously, the whistling shells meant life...
...They were no longer in the middle of the OPM-OPACS feud over whether a 20% or 50% cut was called for; time had proved OPACS right, and Henderson and Knudsen spoke alike at last week's meeting. Jim Adams' passenger car quotas were precise to the smallest manufacturer. For the four months ending Nov. 30, they were...
...greens are to be shredded or finely chopped for salads, prepare them just before serving. If allowed to stand, once they are cut up, even raw vegetables are little more nutritious than straw. ^ The smallest possible amount of water should be used for cooking; see that the water boils before vegetables are added. They should be cooked very rapidly in a covered pan, served at once. Use left-over water for soups, gravies, boiling other vegetables. ^ Salt, sugar or vinegar added to cooking water preserves vitamins. Never add soda to save color-it destroys vitamins...