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...picking his spots: he also made shrewd use of the political barometer. His choice of primaries offers a minimum of risk, yet gives him a chance to satisfy demands that he test himself at the polls. In Minnesota, he will have the almost unbeatable organization of Senator Hubert Humphrey going all-out for him; on his home ground in Illinois, he will be a favorite son; in Pennsylvania, the primary is made to order for organization control, and Stevenson has in his corner every state leader, including Governor George Leader, Pittsburgh's Mayor David Lawrence and Philadelphia...
...than the Massachusetts State Poliomyelitis Advisory Committee dissented.* State authorities, it ruled, are still not to use the vaccine until there is more convincing safety evidence. Last summer Massachusetts was stricken with the worst polio epidemic in its history (3,844 cases reported so far this year), and all-out advocates of the Salk vaccine have argued that many cases might have been prevented if the advisory committee had not blocked the injection program. But the committee is worried about the opposite possibility: that the vaccine may have contributed to the epidemic. Live virus might slip through undetected, cause...
...terrorists had hardly melted back into the jungle before the Royal Regiment of Artillery's 25-pounders began laying down heavy barrages on suspected Communist jungle hideouts. In Kuala Lumpur, headquarters of the British and Malayan forces, General Sir Geoffrey Bourne announced tersely that all-out war against the terrorists would be resumed immediately, canceled the order to "shout before you shoot." The reason Communists could face up to the resumption of a shooting war with some confidence lay not so much in the Federation of Malaya as in the British island colony of Singapore at the southern...
...down. The anti-Communist world prospers, economically and politically. West German prosperity is the marvel of Europe. Talk of European unity revives. The U.S., breaking production records, is in sight of balancing its federal budget. President Eisenhower is up and around. And even in the far-off Philippines, friends of all-out collaborators with the U.S. win a re sounding election victory...
...anxious as his owner. At the start, he broke and forced a recall. Next time the field got off ragged but right. Prendase moved steadily to the front. By the time the leaders pounded into the stretch it was a three-horse race; Prendase was still on top, going all-out to hold off El Chama and Social Outcast...