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...report of the Advisory Committee on Education, backed by the President and soon to come up before the House, is one which would seem to be a boon to education, but might turn out to be a boondoggle of American politics. Recognizing the need for federal support of a failing public school system, the Committee's plan is ideal; unfortunately it is not too practical...
...initiating for its employees the Associated Hospital Service, Harvard has given impetus to a valuable plan of employee welfare. The University's cooperation in promoting insurance against inevitable accidents can prove a great boon to employees...
...they had an apparatus which would show, on a sort of artificial horizon, every object for a mile around, together with its distance and direction, ship captains nosing uneasily ahead through a fog would be much safer and happier. So far such a mariner's boon has not appeared. Yet it seems to be on the way, because the problem is simply one of technical ingenuity in applying principles already understood...
...final and more effective way of getting out the vote the state press made an astonishing last-minute somersault. Soviet editors have been telling Russians for months about how the secret ballot, "that great boon conferred by Stalin, Our Sun," will protect them. The 100,000,000 prospective voters have been warned that of course they must not write their names on these secret ballots, that any ballot would be invalidated if so signed or marked that the voter revealed his identity. Suddenly upon this point the Soviet press reversed, proclaimed last week under banner headlines that every voter...
...chance to avoid nicotine as long as the method did not involve giving up smoking. On sale last week in United Cigar Stores, Liggett Drug Stores, Schulte Cigar Stores and many a hotel in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles was a device making such a boon to smokers available for the first time. So simple that it seems at first glance a quackery, the gadget has a pedigree weighty enough to soothe all such suspicions. Invented by Aluminum Co. of America, it is endorsed by the Mellon Institute and the Italian Government, and is sold...