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Looking for Water. At Freedom Village, after the doctors looked him over (he was having some trouble with his teeth, had a trace of amoebic dysentery), he sat down before a microphone and grinned at a crowd of newsmen. "You are the first Americans I've seen since July 1950," said General Dean. "I'm sure you look a lot better to me than 1 do to you." Then he told his story: how he and a small group of officers and G.I.s fought their way out of burning Taejon in that first grim month...
...bottom. He abruptly ordered all treasury payments stopped while government contracts were reexamined. His Communications Minister reported getting a bill for one 75-mile highway that had been registered as completed and even marked on some maps. Yet, on a flight over the area, he could find no trace of the road. Ruiz Cortines called in the contractor and fined him three times the amount of his claim for nonfulfillment of contract. For the big job of federal district governor, the Presi-'dent picked a veteran Alemánista, but built such a fire under him that...
...many trace elements can dance on an electrode...
...sulphate." That, snapped Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey, a licensed pharmacist, "is nothing but Glauber's salt and Epsom salts. One of them you give to horses, and the other you give to people." Ritchie said he didn't think so, but added that seven "secret trace elements" furnished the real kick to his powder, he thought...
...Astin, an eminent physicist, took the stand and said that the "trace elements" were just impurities in the salts. But when Astin defended the bureau's findings on AD-X2, Committee Chairman Edward Thye, Minnesota's other Senator, pointed to a stack of orders for the battery dope. "That means more to me" he said firmly, "than the technical talk of a bunch of chemists ... If a good, hard-fisted businessman has used the product . . . and is fool enough to come up and place orders month after month, what is the matter with him? Or otherwise, what...