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...chronic A.W.O.L.er...
...chronic Latin-American surplus, in strong U.S. hands, might be managed. In weak hands it would be dumped, wreck everybody's market, and have to be exchanged for European products at ruinous rates of exchange...
...world's worst slums, have one of the world's highest juvenile delinquency rates. In Harlem and Brooklyn no man's lands, boys sometimes frighten their teach ers by pulling knives in classrooms. At least 5,000 of the city's schoolboys are chronic truants...
...Design for Scandal" is a tribute to Rosalind Russell's versatility as a comedienne. This time she plays the frigid woman-judge whose only weakness is a chronic allergy to roses, "a human law-book" with about as much passion as the statues she carves for a hobby. Eventually, Her Honor is thawed out by the persevering attentions of Walter Pidgeon, who performs the sequence of boy meeting, losing and regaining girl with a minimum of hamming and a maximum of savior faire...
...civilian medicine, said Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, head of the American Medical Association's Council on Medical Education and Hospitals, is to save the doctor's time. Henceforth trained physicians will have to spend most of their time in their offices, will make only urgent house calls; chronic and convalescent patients will have to be moved out of hospitals to make room for the acutely sick; practical nurses will have to take over simple medical tasks...