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...quickly recovered by using Bankers Securities to take over City Stores (Oppenheim-Collins and Franklin Simon), Loft Candy Corp. (267 stores) and other diversified interests. Greenfield, a big booster of Philadelphia urban redevelopment and the Democratic Party, will be succeeded by Gustave G. Amsterdam, 50, an associate for the past 20 years and president of Bankers Securities since...
...successful takeoff, the Air Force launched its first Discoverer satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Discoverer was the U.S.'s first attempt to put a satellite into polar orbit, which would make possible surveillance of the whole of the earth's surface. The booster...
...Battery Booster. For motorists whose batteries run down in winter from too much low-speed, nighttime driving with heater and defroster, Consolidated General Products of Houston announced a generator overdrive to help charge the battery. At low driving speeds the overdrive speeds up the generator, cuts back at regular car speed. Price...
Those who had three polio shots over a year ago were also urged to come for a booster shot on Mondays or Tuesdays from 2 to 3 p.m. or Wednesdays or Thursdays from 10 to 11 a. m. Those who have not yet had all three Salk shots are asked to report very soon. Parental permission is advised...
...Booster Now. Other symposium speakers agreed that the most urgent next step in the anti-polio war is to complete three-shot protection for 50 million Americans under 40 who still have had no vaccine or only an odd shot. This will mean wiping out pockets of epidemic potential, now found mainly in low-living-standard areas, such as the Detroit slums that bred 1958's deadliest outbreak. Simultaneously, Dr. Salk recommended a fourth or booster shot for those who have already had three. (Though some nervous-Nellie parents have had their children jabbed seven or eight times, this...