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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still unsettled at week's end was the question whether any law or regulation had been violated by the shipment from Parke, Davis & Co. to Johns Hopkins. One thing was certain: from now on, airline pilots will want to know about it whenever they carry anything as dangerous as a ten-quart jug of polio virus. Captain Tappe's cargo was the Mahoney strain of virus, which causes most paralysis...
...laden with obscure symbolism that Host Osawa told his mystified buddies: "If you can understand either it or the program notes, you're a better Japanese than I am!" At the Nagoya railroad station, the Princetonians were greeted by employees of Seaweed's big Osawa Trading Co. They waved a streamer proclaiming: "Welcome Princeton, Orange and Black Brothers...
Armstrong & Co. left Accra without the triumphal procession that CBS had planned, but leaving a trail of good will anyhow. A band of young high-life musicians who followed him devotedly throughout the tour went back to their nightclubs feeling good-the master had told them they sounded just like the jazzmen in old-time New Orleans. "Man, it was just very," said one of them in his daze. Just very what? someone asked. "Just very great," he sighed...
...message was rushed to Nepal's new King, Mahendra. While the invading Japanese still struggled toward his Himalayan capital down the dangerous, snow-covered slopes of their triumph last week, Mahendra ordered his subjects to prepare a proper reception. Not since the collapse of their "Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere" had any Japanese been greeted as conquerors. But now three of them had become the first to top Manaslu, world's ninth tallest mountain (26,658 ft.) and one of the toughest to climb...
Across the broad face of the U.S., businessmen were trying to see where the U.S. is headed. Farm-machine sales were down to the point where J. I. Case Co. shut one of its plants. In the troubled U.S. auto industry there was more talk of production cuts. Holding his first annual meeting, in a big tent in Dearborn, Mich., Henry Ford II put production this year at "less than 6,000,000 units." Said Ford: "Production will remain a negative factor at least until the last quarter." Furthermore, he added, "it seems unlikely that the general economy will expand...