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...Anahist Co. (Anahist); Bristol-Myers Co. (Resistab); Whitehall Pharmacal Co. (Krip-tin); Union Pharmaceutical Co. (Inhiston); Grove Laboratories (Antamine...
...newspaper, La Razon. Some 10,000 spectators lined a twomile, zigzagging, up & downhill race course. Among 250 drivers was one seven-year-old who came equipped with a white smock and first-aid kit; he listed his car as an ambulance, won the right to enter it. The Catavi tin-mining region sent six entrants whose expenses had been paid by subscription. One boy, asked whether he had brakes on his car, replied: "How can I win if I have brakes?" "Then how are you going to stop at the end?" "The crowd will stop...
During 8½ years, to be exact, Grocer Brown and his fellow food merchants in Britain had snipped their scissors at some 68 billion pesky, elusive food coupons in the ration books of Britain's housewives, stored them in little tins to send to the Food Ministry at the end of each month. Each year they had filled out 20 million official forms. At 5:02 p.m. one day last week the Ministry called a halt to the point system. Formerly, a housewife had to decide how to divide her points between canned fish and fruit, molasses, rice, jellies...
...from the provinces. Police brought out their tear gas. After routing Communist-led student rioters from a university-building strongpoint, government forces advanced into the northern working-class districts. There the rioters fought stubbornly with small hand grenades made of cement, scrap iron and dynamite, apparently brought from the tin mines. Finally the army, firing a few mortar shells, drove the rioters into the hills rimming...
...piped down the hole. Big floodlights were brought in; they threw a harsh, garish light over the scene and heated the air until the toiling cops were wet with sweat. At 8:30 there was a terrible interruption. A lighted cigarette was lowered down the well in a tin can; a few minutes after it reached the bottom there was an explosion-apparently caused by oxygen and seeping gasoline fumes. Fire filled the well...