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...British Case. Britons are increasingly restive and resentful over their dependence on the U.S. They don't like being tied by the U.S. loan and other strings to what they consider the boom-or-bust economy on the U.S. side of the Atlantic. They cite the end of price controls and the near-disastrous coal strike as examples of U.S. irresponsibility. This resentment is aggravated by what the British see as a U.S. effort to put on them all the blame for policies which seek a joint U.S.-British objective...
...Acapulco or bust" cried 80-odd 'Cliffedwelling mermaids this week as they breasted, crawled, and dog-paddled through Radcliffe's annual marathon which kept the Mason Street pool in a state of frenzy for five hectic afternoons. The distance from here to Acapulco was as nothing to the Amazons, since each length of the pool was considered 12 miles...
...York or bust," was the motto of most, who grew progressively more uneasy under darkening skies yesterday Meanwhile their friends back at the College were busting without even an attempt at the New York...
...year-old mother of four, Mrs. Janice Pollock was having some weird experiences. A manifestly shapely young woman (128 lbs., 5 ft. 6½; waist: 25½; bust: 34½; hips: 35) with handsome brown hair and eyes, she had journeyed from her home in Columbus, Ohio to Jackson, Miss. to compete in a beauty contest sponsored by a dressmaking company. In giddy succession, she had edged 19 other unusual wives out of the title of "Mrs. America," won a $2,500 prize and assorted "emoluments," and sat on a glittery throne. All she had to do in return...
Professor Herrick's proposed "Venus or bust" voyage certainly would be a "bust" if the interplanetary pilot used the map drawn by TIME Artist R. M. Chapin Jr. [TIME...