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...special committee recently recommended at inexpensive blanket plan that would insure players up to $5,000. The proposal calls for a $250 deductible insurance policy that would cost one dollar per year for each athlete. Under the group plan the premiums would be paid by the school, and it would cover any athlete hurt in collegiate practice, games, or travel. The group plan is optional and is being explained to members of the NCAA by mail...
...Blanket. In Santiago, Chile, Weather Forecaster Julio Bustos was being sued by the mayor of Valdivia, who charged that Bustos' prediction of rain during Valdivia's centenary celebrations had discouraged tourists, cost the city 10 million pesos...
...worm-ridden period furniture, a hall jammed with bottles of curdled milk and old clothes piled higher than a man's shoulders. A menagerie of budgereegahs, canaries, pigeons, dogs and cats had added their meed to the midden. Cowering in a corner, covered only by a tattered red blanket, hunched the man who had screamed at the window. His matted beard reached his knees. The nails of his toes and fingers curled in uncut proliferation. The police soon identified him as "young Harry Tucker," a nephew reported to have died or left England 30 years...
This saintly behavior of hard-boiled corporations is a subject of amazed debate among AEC men. Some maintain that patriotism is an important factor. Others believe the contractors' enthusiasm comes largely from far-sighted self-interest. Under the AEC's blanket of secrecy, a whole new technology is developing, as important as steel or electricity. The only way that an ambitious corporation can find out what is going on is by ducking under the blanket where the secrets are. There is prestige involved, too, and a company that has a big AEC contract finds it easier to recruit...
...sprawling marble Palazzo delle Esposizioni to house it. To fill the 2½ kilometers of wall space they arranged a big retrospective of 19th and 20th century Italian art, asked Italy's 250 top painters and sculptors to send an average of four works apiece, issued a blanket invitation to every other brush and chisel wielder in Italy to try his luck with the show's jury...