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...coming weeks the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis plans to begin intensive field trials of its new polio vaccine in 200 or more selected counties in the U.S. (TIME. Nov. 23). Last week Illinois health officials said that the Illinois counties so favored might have to beg off. Director Roland R. Cross of the Illinois Department of Health, acting on the recommendations of a technical advisory committee, refused to permit the trials "until further proof of the safety and effectiveness of the vaccine has been received...
...White-Morgenthau plan. When the agreements were being initialed, F.D.R. suggested that Churchill initial the German one first and then an economic agreement that would lead to an additional loan to Great Britain. Asked Churchill: "What do you want me to do? Get on my hind legs and beg like Fala...
Hill, "just don't operate that way. Jonathan, 14, has not yet been late. You have, to beg him to stop studying and go to bed. He even works out lessons ahead. He has started saying 'Yes, sir,' 'Yes, thank you,' and 'No, thank you' just like a civilized human being . . . One night he did homework until midnight and then rushed off in the morning without breakfast. I made inquiry that evening: 'What if you didn't have your prep (that's English for homework)? . . . What if you went without...
...difficult to see how ethical and even Christian sanction can be claimed for such a policy. I must respect the sincerity of Mr. Dulles, a fellow churchman; but I earnestly beg him to beware of what Britain's leading Methodist, Dr. Donald Soper, has just called "forging God's signature to our plans...
...another period equal at least to that of his sentence; anyone sentenced for more than eight years had to remain in the colony for life. About all that differentiated the libérés from the prisoners was the fact that the freed men had to scratch and beg for their living, while the prisoners at least got fed. Money or influence might buy a man special privileges, but there was no honest way to earn them. One of the most ironically successful prisoners in the colony was a onetime mutinous soldier who managed to buy himself...