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Fireproof Paint. A fire-retarding paint that can be used for home decorating has been put on sale by Glidden Co. Intense heat makes the paint swell and char, forming an incombustible protective blanket. Price: $7.95 a gallon in white, $8.35 in black and colors...
...explained also that Blue Cross would not be accepted without construction of the new hospital-infirmary. Administrators of the Blue Cross system will not accept blanket College coverage so long as Stilliman is the only health center. The Medical School is trying compulsory Blue Cross this year, but the experiment includes the uses of neighboring Peter Bent Brigham Hospital...
...rare visit to the Senate, where he has a lifetime seat, to speak for Mario Scelba, whom Don Luigi had taken off a Sicilian share farm, educated and launched into Italian politics. Weak and chilled by the drafts in the big Senate chamber, the old priest asked for a blanket to warm him: "If you don't want me to die, you had better give me at least a blanket." Even with two blankets bought with a special appropriation ($70), Don Luigi was not comfortable enough to stay on and cast a precious vote for Scelba. But to Italy...
...leaders called off the strike. Jasper Savanhu apologized: "I have now discovered that the white troops behaved correctly, and I unreservedly withdraw my allegation." Said another Negro: "Here in Rhodesia, the white man and the black man lie in the same bed. But the white man has kept the blanket, and the black man has tossed all night. Now we are getting a share of the blanket...
There were other signs, all over Africa, of a fairer share of the blanket. Items: ¶ In blossoming Uganda, where Baganda tribesmen still mourn the loss of their exiled Kabaka (TIME, Dec. 14), Governor Sir Andrew Cohen took a plane for London to discuss "social and economic re forms" with British Colonial Secretary Oliver Lyttelton. Said Cohen before takeoff: "There must be no color bar in Uganda; this evil thing will never be permitted in this country...