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Interstate Epidemic. CDC investigators are able to close the books on some cases with little trouble. They had few problems, for example, figuring out why a batch of plum wine that had fermented in an old bathtub caused lead poisoning in only one of several people who helped concoct the stuff. Under questioning, the man sheepishly revealed that he had consumed 50 gallons...
...usual in an emergency, they reacted with remarkable individuality. Floyd Wallace of Leslie, Mich., claims to have found a way to concoct a gasoline substitute by cooking in a big steel drum ingredients as unlikely as wood, leaves, brush and a soupcon of everyday garbage. In Massachusetts, the Warren Savings Bank whittled electric usage by doing its evening banking by candlelight; the city fathers of Block Island, R.I., put the community back on daylight saving time. Students at Boston's New England School of Art devised a means of keeping their nude model warm when they turned the thermostat...
...adultery, beheading for murder, cutting off a hand for thievery-though they are far less frequently applied than they were years ago. As in many other Arab countries, drinking and smoking are nominally forbidden, but police today arrest only the public drinkers. Many resident foreigners and some Saudis concoct their own bathtub liquor...
CHUL members, who represent the sometimes conflicting interests of different groups in the University, agree that any housing plan will redistribute problems rather than solve them. Any housing plan they concoct will inevitably disappoint some students...
ADVERTISING men will undoubtedly concoct somewhat more original slogans, but Trans International, Overseas National and World are names that could soon become vacation bywords. They are the three biggest of the eleven U.S. supplemental air carriers that operate both at home and abroad on a nonscheduled basis. Now that the Civil Aeronautics Board has given the go-ahead for charter lines to reach beyond "affinity" groups and compete against regularly scheduled carriers for business from individual travelers (TIME, Oct. 9), the nonskeds are planning a big campaign to promote mass, low-cost air travel...