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...cross burned in front of a Jewish fraternity house on the University of Southern California campus; another illumined the house of a Los Angeles Negro. In Hollywood's cream-stucco Temple Israel, Rabbi Max Nussbaum, a Nazi refugee, gazed with dismay at the holy ark, ravaged by unknown vandals, and the swastikas and hate messages smeared on the walls of his temple...
...last week the whole island was affected. Even trains couldn't run. Said Director Antonio Melis of Florence's Entomological Center: "It's a biological phenomenon unknown in history. . . ." Unless the blight were checked within a fortnight, the locusts would develop wings, blitz the estimated 200,000-ton grain crop, sorely needed for relief. And, warned Professor Melis, should the locusts survive into July, when they lay eggs, next year's generation might "completely extinguish the island's plant life...
Some dowsers were undoubtedly sincere, accepting no fee and believing themselves to be agents of an unknown natural law or supernatural force. Others were small-time swindlers. Their hoary profession survived because, in the many parts of the U.S. level enough for farming, underground water was easy to find, at least in spring. But honest or crooked, the U.S. Geological Survey was against dowsers...
What happens is that the baby's red blood cells which contain the Rh factor become mixed in some unknown way with the Rh negative blood of the mother. Result: to combat the invading cells, her tissues produce destructive antibodies. These then diffuse back into the unborn child's blood stream, attacking the blood cells, causing the disease...
Eight thousand years ago, says Necrologist Moore, the unknown inhabitants of the Indian peninsula seem to have had no fear of death, regarded earthly life as a kind of spiritual education, death as release for the soul to return home. But from then until the coming of Christ, mankind grew more & more entangled in material things, and correspondingly loth to leave them...