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...trade. Each child must also learn to drive a car-and repair it. Every Friday comes "hygiene day," when all must pass personal inspection of clothes and quarters, and each dormitory also has a logbook for daily lapses: "Dust on the window ledge," or "Lint under Kolya's cot." The students get one day off a week (Sunday), and all must then clear the premises, visit relatives or friends. The reason (to prevent loneliness) illustrates the logic with which shrewd Principal Alexander Andreyevich Petrov runs the place. An able headmaster, Petrov is well paid; he and his teacher wife...
...industrious Chinese pieceworkers in cramped cubby holes and back rooms, more and more are coming from new, modern factories such as Lee's. He employs 5,000 workers, v. 150 when he started, has one factory running three full shifts a day, spinning, weaving, dyeing, cutting and sewing cot ton garments for export. Last August he added a new factory to weave 1,000,000 yds. of cloth per month, cut 60,000 gar ments a day. His own garment exports to the U.S., 15% of the crown colony's, have risen from...
...make gun turrets for U.S. bombers. During the harried months of the switchover at Emerson, with the Air Corps' General "Hap" Arnold calling him up to plead for "just one turret, just one," Symington worked around the clock. When exhaustion dragged at him, he flopped on a cot in his office. When he woke up, often in the middle of the night, he went back to work. General Arnold got turrets aplenty...
Black Eye. Newspaper columnists and indignant M.P.s bent angrily over the fallen idol. Hissed the London Daily Mirror's "Cassandra": "While he was a-mewing and a-puling in his cot, at least 2,000,000 young men of about the same age as he is now [19] went to war against Germany and Italy. Almost every man jack of them felt they would never make a soldier because 'they weren't cut out for it.' " But Dene was cut out of it entirely; after two months of psychiatric and other treatment, he got a medical...
...Robertson's book, Young Children in Hospitals (Basic Books; $3), arguing that hospital restrictions on visits to child patients are needlessly damaging, and that with a child under five, mother should be allowed to go into the hospital and stay-even if it means sleeping on a cot beside the child's crib. Britain's Ministry of Health accepted the idea and declared in a special report: "This is of great benefit to the child, and if the mother is allowed to play a full part in his care, she can be a help rather than...