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...Syracuse, N.Y., the Post-Standard printed an angry editorial complaining that far more money is raised for polio than for cancer, heart disease or TB-which have far higher death rates. It quoted handy backyard statistics reporting fewer cases in upstate New York than in recent years, accused the foundation of being greedy and extravagant...
...door, made a plywood table for his son's electric-train set, laid a tile floor in the bathroom. "Great stuff-it's got suction cups on the bottom-no trouble laying it down." Last week ex-Lounger Bernstein was busy building a brick walk for his backyard, a wall bookcase, and planning a handsome new cabinet for the hi-fi set he had just bought...
Diplomatic Front. Arbenz' ouster complicated diplomatic efforts to deal with the civil war and-more widely-with Guatemala's drift toward becoming a Russian satellite in the U.S.'s backyard...
From its vantage point at one of the myriad corners of a shrinking "hub," the CRIMSON has an excellent view of occurrences both in its own backyard and in the world at large. During the year, its editors, by taking a long view of the former and a dim view of the latter, comment on both. For the benefit of alumni and anyone else who may be interested, it presents here the high points of its year's editorial policies...
...Machinery lies all around the railroad stations. One can see everywhere mounds of broken parts lying in the mud . . . Many things get spoiled. Gasoline, lubricants, hay, spares, combines are being kept together in one backyard; hay mowers rot in the compost . . . Some spare parts are just thrown into the middle of the street, and the tractors which go by crush them to pieces...