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Cities & Country. The independents are booming because the onetime farmland they serve is now becoming suburbanized as homeowners and businesses both spread out from the cities. Under a 1913 compact with the U.S. Attorney General, A. T. & T. agreed to acquire no more independents and to provide connecting service with...
Abbott Laboratories commented with commendable caution that "it is still a long road from these first results to the ultimate evaluation in humans of an experimental drug of this type." Equally cautious was the University of Michigan's Dr. John Burns, who has been testing healthy subjects, mostly students...
Whether he wants a canvas or a corporation, esthetic Nathan Cummings is happiest "doing a deal." At the moment, the 69-year-old chairman of Chicago's Consolidated Foods Corp. ought to be exuberant. His art collection, mostly impressionist and postimpressionist, embraces "100 very, very good paintings and 500...
∙ ON AGGRESSION: "When aggression stalks either a community or the world, resistance to it is both necessary and noble, lest it become all-pervasive. And it is well that it should be checked in its early days before it can acquire the cumulative momentum of success."-Senator Paul Douglas...
Another possibility envisioned is the fully or partial closing of McCarthy Road. If the University acquired the McNamara house it would ask the City for permission to close the entire road. It it failed to acquire the plot, it would only ask that part of the road be closed.