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Last week, bearded, bushed and suffering from a monumental thirst, he pulled into Tokyo. In his journeying, he was ten years, $35,000 and 30,000 miles from Montreal. He had driven his clumsy craft across the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia, parts of the Indian Ocean, the South China Sea and the East China Sea. Between him and his goal there are now only 3,100 relatively calm miles of the north Pacific and a 6,000-mile overland trip across Alaska, Canada and the U.S. If his luck holds, he is sure to become...
...cozy terms with her widowed father's succession of mistresses until he proposed to marry one, at which point the daughter showed her claws and drove the poor woman to suicide. A Certain Smile is only slightly less scandalous, and similarly concerned with Author Sagan's thirst for drinking at the fountain of eternal middle age. This time the heroine ditches her schoolmate lover for an illicit affair with his married uncle...
...After a campaign whipped up by the local press and an outfit calling itself the "Fluoridation Education Society of the Carolinas," Mayor Leon Schneider of Gastonia, N.C. ordered a halt to fluoridation of the city's water. Symptoms falsely attributed to the tooth-saving fluoridation process: "excessive thirst, spine becomes stiff, nausea, mental alertness deteriorates, nails become brittle and peel, vision becomes blurred." One hysterical woman phoned the mayor: "People are dying like flies." In contrast, the U.S. Public Health Service reported soberly and scientifically on the tenth year of fluoridation in Grand Rapids, Mich.: it has reduced children...
...delivery before 1962. Anticipating a continued upsurge in world trade (which has already soared 50% since 1948). shipowners are ordering giant new ore carriers, combination ore-petroleum ships, roll-on, roll-off carriers to haul loaded trucks and vans, fast new freighters to slake the world's impatient thirst for machinery and steel, coal, wheat, and other basic raw materials that must be hauled from the ends of the earth (see color pages). Most of all, shipowners are clamoring for tankers. Though the world's tanker fleet has doubled since World War II, oil shipments have grown...
...Fool? At first the treatment left Pyrame too weak even to work up a thirst. But having led their horse to their esteemed water, the Bourbouliens made him drink. By last week he was taking his medicine like a man, frisking around almost like a race horse. Just about everybody was overjoyed, impatient for the day when they could get down a bet-everybody, that is, but the local Poujadists. They plastered the town with posters: "Bourbouliens, whom are they making a fool of? If poor little Pyrame is wheezing or broken-winded, there's a way to deal...