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...growing number of poisons used in the modern home. This is no mean trick because of the multiplicity of trade names. Poisonous components are listed with antidotes and other treatments. Parents who telephone a hospital emergency room crying that a child has swallowed poison are told to make the youngster vomit if possible (by tickling the throat with a spoon handle). Then they should take the child and a sample of the poison (the vomitus will serve in a pinch) to the hospital right away. There, the old-fashioned stomach pump is still the mainstay of treatment...
...Downs. Since then, U.S. road racing has had its ups & downs. In 1950, Sam Collier, a close friend of Cunningham and one of the original Sports Car Club enthusiasts, was killed in a Ferrari in the Watkins Glen Race. Two years later a skidding Cadillac-Allard killed a youngster who was watching from a Watkins Glen sidewalk. The same year, a driver was killed at Bridgehampton. Again there was a public hue & cry, an echo of the Vanderbilt Cup days, and road racing was on its uppers...
...Schuman Plan was meant to be an economic counterpart of EDC's military partnership. So long as France hesitates over EDC and so long as France's suspicion of Germany is met by German resentment of France, so long will Monnet's brainchild be a sickly youngster in a household of quarreling parents...
...youngster who derives his greatest satisfaction from "aggressive, masculine, gregarious activities [in which he seeks] dominance." He is interested in everything built around an engine, from hot rods and high-powered cars to flying machines, along with anything mechanical, scientific or military...
...theirs not long after Rhoda's father was transferred to the South? Before The Bad Seed is fully under way, Mrs. Penmark knows the answers to these questions, and the shock is more than she can bear. For Rhoda is a born bundle of sweet-miened sin, a youngster of good family and favorable environment who is quite ready to kill others for whatever she may covet...