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...cases. The ratio was almost identical in the next most vulnerable group, aged 5 to 19: of 6.1 million unvaccinated, 185 got paralytic polio, for a rate of 3 per 100,000; the rate was only .25 per 100,000 for the 89 cases among the 36.2 million youngsters who had taken the full Salk course...
Blessed & Peaceful. Pastor Harris, who writes a religion column in the Atlanta Journal, has blown up a storm among his readers with the news that, at the recent Southeastern Methodist Conference, the Committee on Hymnology petitioned the Methodist General Conference to authorize a new hymnal that they hope will omit such oldtime gospel hymns as What a Friend We Have in Jesus and Blessed Assurance, Jesus Is Mine. Musically, said the committee, they are difficult to sing; theologically they are inadequate...
...there plenty of young men around?" "I have a weak heart; how is the altitude?" "My husband snores; can we get separate rooms?" Finding a Field. Some of the most successful agencies have carved out their own special little piece of the travel market and concentrated on it. Among the fastest growers are the nationality agencies, usually run by first-generation Americans who send aged immigrants back for a last look at the old country. Cleveland's Poznan Travel Agency, opened two years ago by Tax Consultant Joseph Kupniewski, does 90% of its thriving business with aged Polish immigrants...
...Cook's Tour of many possible purgatories, or was it all a dream? Apparently it was no dream. When Sitwell sees a kitten, the animal will have nothing to do with him, it arches its back and its tail goes up straight, for "I have been down among dead men and the cat knows it." Sitwell's final guess is typical: "As with human beings, so with all creatures, their god is in themselves and not in a high place in the sky . . . We, and all creatures, are left to fend for ourselves." To the reader...
Life in the future, in Clarke's ingenious imagination, can be disturbing, particularly to readers still unresigned to life in the present. The rage among moonmen a few centuries hence: Hypercanasta...