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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night spots. At the gaudy Lido on the Champs Elysées, there was an embarrassment. Evita, dressed for the first time in black, picked at lobster, watched the floor show. At the show's end two men inside a camel's skin go through various antics under the spotlight; the climax comes when the camel's rear presents a bouquet to a woman spectator. Evita was selected for the honor. She was not amused, stalked out to the sniggers of other diners...
...after listening to various solutions, the administrators had the problem tossed right back at them by Ralph Burns, professor of Education at Dartmouth College...
...weeks, roaring old (67) Representative John Taber of Auburn, N.Y., had been whacking away at the Administration's $1,353,000,000 bill for foreign aid. The various expenditures which it included had all been authorized. But Congress still had to appropriate the money, and John Taber was going to finger every dollar. He denounced the bill; he tilted furiously at the "Marshall approach," which he claimed even Marshall could not explain. He likened U.S. efforts in Europe to "a ward heeler trying to catch the floaters with a $5 bill...
...Whereas the Indian village, the Indian parades . . . and the various other contributions of the Indians have attracted many visitors, and increased the pleasure of these visitors by providing material for all kinds of photographers...
...Degkwitz first crystallizes the drug in a shape and size that fits into the organ at which it is aimed. When the drug is in the form of needle-shaped crystals, for example, the crystals after injection into a vein go straight to the lungs. Round crystals of various sizes, says Degkwitz, can be deposited at will in the liver, spleen, bone marrow...