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...largely Moslem population lives. Pacified, colonized, civilized through 125 years, Northern Algeria is officially a part of metropolitan France, and sends its Deputies to the Paris Parliament. Its approximately one million European settlers produce enormous quantities of the same wine and wheat that Frenchmen already produce in surfeit at home. Result: it must be subsidized from home, to the tune of some $50 million a year...
...Henry I of England died in 1135 "of a surfeit of lampreys," a popular dish in the Middle Ages...
...great because he managed to do everything years before it was done by the person we credit with doing it. Hackney, for instance, out Saroyaned Saroyan and out-Bellowed Saul Bellow, and did it first. "Gutenberg's Folly" is therefore a labor of love: dying from a surfeit of chopped liver canapes, Hackney willed Wallach his wife and his work...
Despite this trite ending, Gable and Miss Gardner combine to make Lone Star entertaining even for those suffering from a surfeit of Westerns. Also at Loew's Louis Haywood staggers through a conventional horror-thriller, The Son of Dr. Jekyll...
...highest farm incomes in Canada, based on record-price crops. The whole rich province seemed already on the crest of prosperity when the oil boom struck. To Alberta's farm folk, a God-fearing collection of Baptists, Mormons and other practitioners of strict oldtime religion, the surfeit of bounties was a well-deserved miracle...