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When the Texas legislature's "little Kefauver committee" began snuffling about in search of scofflaws, it turned almost automatically on the Gulf Coast's island city of Galveston (pop. 65,000)-always one of the widest-open towns in the U.S. But Galveston's politicos and gamblers betrayed neither the sheepish guilt, the sullen defiance nor the outraged innocence commonly shown by victims...
...lovers were bitter, and brokers loudly grumbled that they could do a better job, even under rationing and retail price controls. When an all-party committee of Parliament also agreed, the Ministry of Food gave in. "Government purchasing," admitted the Ministry, "does not, on the whole, give consumers the widest possible choice of teas [or] assure adequate supplies...
...prepared from fatty beef heart, the mixture quickly clouded and a deposit settled in the bottom of the test tube; with blood serum from a healthy individual, the clear fluid stayed clear. Thus was born the first simple and effective serum test for syphilis, and one of those in widest use today.* In popular lingo, Kahn tests are often called Wassermanns. Kahn, who took no cash for his discovery, lets the credit go too. Says he: "I don't care what people call...
Last week the Chinese Communist leaders were reacting like all Communist leaders who get frightened. From Canton in the south up through Shanghai and Tientsin in the north, Red China echoed to the crack of the executioner's bullet. It was the widest and crudest Communist purge the world had seen since Stalin's war against Russia's middle-class peasants 20 years...
Jungle to Swampland. Such careful preparations are not enough to keep the River flowing smoothly. Though it also is a Book-of-the-Month choice (for January), the story soon turns as turgid as the widest reaches of the Amazon itself: the expedition breaks down, fever rages, the natives want to quit. Scientist Barna is found, but he wants merely to live in peace with the natives so that he may expiate an old sin. Even the cast of characters seems to have escaped from the rolls of an old jungle thriller: a gigantic U.S. Negro, wanted for murder...