Word: teas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tea & Sympathy. In another case, that of 26-year-old Andreas Panayiotou, who died in his cell, the commission ordered a postmortem, found that he had been beaten to death. Explanation by the British police: Panayiotou had attempted to escape custody. Yet another case was that of Maria Anastasiou Lambrou who, after her Greek-speaking interrogator had punched her on the nose, warned him that she was pregnant. Thereupon the interrogator had told her that unless she told him the whereabouts of EOKA's top man, Colonel Grivas, she would suffer a miscarriage, which after two subsequent attacks...
...Japanese scientists tested a long list of objects, from spinach to deer horns, for strontium 90, and found a wide variation. Tea plants, for instance, contained 30 "units"* while spinach had only 3.8. Rice, all important in Japan, was comparatively high (10.4 units), but shellfish from Tokyo Bay had only .04 units. Highest count was from tuna caught in Bikini waters in 1956: 53.5 units. The scientists also examined the ashes of 20 persons, taken from burial urns, and found that their strontium 90 count varied from .06 units for an elderly man who lived in Niigata, to 4.1 units...
...three hours under sedation, the Indian delegate was back again, helped to his seat in the Council room on the strong arms of two associates. His doctor said he was "a very sick man" who. had been working too hard while sustaining himself on "about 30 cups of tea a day, absorbing all of the salt in his body." Once back in his seat, Menon expressed a desire to speak for ten minutes and promptly launched into a speech that lasted just short of an hour...
There He Soaks. Christian Dior, assiduously unassuming, rarely appears at theaters, operas or balls. Mornings, he starts the day with a cup of mint tea, served in his crimson-canopied antique bed by his sinisterly handsome Spanish butler. When he is preparing his collections, he then repairs to the bathroom with its Empire tub of green marble lined with silvery metal and fitted with swan's-head faucets. There he soaks. Hours later, he has covered hundreds of tiny scraps of paper with tiny figures, a kind of hieroglyphic reverie of contours and silhouettes...
MAIL-ORDER SHOPS will be tried in some National Tea Co. supermarkets. Aldens Inc. of Chicago will sell lower-price appliances and clothing, also set up catalogue stands for ordering more expensive merchandise...