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...their youngsters an outing. One, who spent a lively afternoon keeping his young son out of crocodile pits and away from bears' paws, found that he had to go back the next day to see for himself what the zoo was really like. The pair who bore the brunt of the cover story were James Bell and Serrell Hillman, of our Chicago bureau-home of the cover subject, Marlin Perkins, director of the Lincoln Park...
Margaret Sanger Slee, 63, who has borne the brunt of the American battle for birth control (and three children), advised Europe and Asia to stop having babies for ten years. Hungry countries should not "bring any more children into the world to starve," she proclaimed. Did that include England? "Definitely," she said, and took a plane to tell that country all about...
...Harry Truman signed the Taft-Hartley labor bill, which Congress had overwhelmingly approved, organized labor would never forgive him. At least that was what labor's spokesmen were telling him. On the other hand, if the President vetoed the bill, he would bear the brunt of public resentment over any new strike crisis. One crisis built up this week when U.S. shipping was threatened with immobilization by a strike of five C.I.O. maritime unions. Another crisis was ahead: John Lewis made deep rumblings. A strike threatened in the soft coal mines, when they go back to private operation...
...they did not take full advantage of it in setting their demands for the coming year. With bargaining power reduced by incontrovertible facts, new highs in labor's terms can be avoided only by the slim margin of union moderation, at a time when unionists are bearing the brunt of a greatly increased cost of living. Labor leaders are under greater pressure than ever from their followers to bring home increased wages. Only the threat of another round of strikes which might be disastrous to the future well-being of their organizations; with Congress showing increased signs of readiness...
Although the populous Houses, Yard halls, and graduate school dormitories are expected to bear the brunt of the drive, their donations alone cannot fill Harvard's high quota, and the campaign will stall unless every commuter and faculty member contributes his share. The fact that the meager contributions of commuters have not kept pace with the general enthusiasm is largely due to an unavoidable technical imperfection in the campaign. Unable to solicit donations by a door-to-door method, the committee relied on individual letters to bring in non-resident funds and has rammed up against the same problem that...