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...averages. They do not reveal what the extremes of exposure may be for individuals in many parts of the world. But by any gauge, most scientists agree that man is already exposed to too much radiation. Last week, at the first International Co'ngress of Radiation Research in Burlington, Vt., Brookhaven National Laboratory's Dr. Howard J. Curtis reported evidence that a single modern fluoroscopic examination of a pregnant woman's pelvis will shorten her child's life by two weeks...
Died. William Kerr Scott, 61, Democratic Senator from North Carolina, onetime (1949-53) governor of North Carolina and (1937-48) state commissioner of agriculture; of a heart attack; in Burlington, N.C. The tobacco-chewing "Squire of Haw River" (where he ran a 200-head dairy farm) drew his political strength from the rural vote, solidified his farm popularity during his term as governor by pushing through a bond issue that financed the paving of 14,810 miles of rural roads, chivied power companies until they strung 21,000 miles of new electric lines. Liberal Scott thought North Carolina was "shortchanging...
...does not smoke, Yale has $1,000 for a boy named DeForest, Princeton has a scholarship for an Eagle Scout and Harvard has funds for boys with the name Anderson, Baxendale, Borden, Bright, Downer, Haven, Murphy or Pennoyer-and also for an lowan, preferably living somewhere along the Burlington. Among the lowan takers: Nathan Pusey of Council Bluffs...
...Burlington Lines President Harry C. Murphy seconded this idea, also charged that "subsidized competition" was one of the chief reasons for the rails' troubles. While the railroads are forced to lay out more every year for maintenance and to pay local taxes, the "Government spends more and more on airways, highways and waterways for the use of our competitors who contribute little if anything to the cost of local government" through property taxes. James M. Symes, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, No. 1 U.S. carrier, also pleaded with Congress to end direct and indirect subsidies for trucks, airlines...
...leisurely up and down the Brenta on a splendid, gilded barge, equipped with a studio for his ten to twelve apprentices, shaded by a yellow-and-black linen awning. The villas that resulted won in later years the admiration of English Architects Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren and Lord Burlington, as well as American Thomas Jefferson, who used Palladio designs as prototypes for his own Monticello and his master plan for the University of Virginia...