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Last week came a real crusher in the humiliating House defeat of the Administration's farm program (see following story). In the hope that a farm-bill victory would set off a bandwagon movement for the rest of the Kennedy program, the Administration pulled out all the stops. "If we can pass the farm bill" said House Majority Leader Carl Albert,"it vill be downhill the rest of the session." But after the House vote, everything seemed to be slanting up. The Administration's plan for medical care for the aged was stalled in the House Ways...
...sketches, 5) an automatic merchandiser that dispenses clothing, makes change from dollar bills, 6) an electronic system linking an airline's ticket offices throughout the U.S., 7) a cart for big-chef barbecues, 8; a plastic balloon building, 9) a 50-ton log stacker, 10) a tree crusher, 11) a transistor radio as small as a sugar cube, 12) a language-translating machine, 13) an underwater torpedo retriever, 14) a movable island crane, 15 ) a high-speed ditch digger, 16) a "pickle picker," 17) a hay pelletizer that makes cookies for cows, 18) a home sound-movie camera...
What kept standards high? Answers Marson: the detailed high-school curriculum prescribed by the powerful College Entrance Examination Board of the time, and the fact that Harvard accepted boys only for academic excellence. But around 1935, Harvard added nonacademic admission criteria: photographs, social poise, athletic prowess. "The real crusher" came in the 1940s when Harvard and other College Board members abolished the old essay examinations (in all subjects) and "substituted the present objective and objectionable tests of today...
Bone Welder Mandarino was formerly a bone crusher. He worked his way through medical school (Hahnemann Medical College, '45) by playing professional football (guard) for the Philadelphia Eagles, currently is team physician for the Eagles. With Dr. Joseph E. Salvatore of Walter Reed Army Medical Center, he has worked on the bone glue for four years, has found that patients with compound fractures can return to work four to ten months sooner than with plaster casts. It helps particularly with older people whose bones are slow to heal. While the yellowish bone glue has produced no toxic or foreign...
...concrete blockhouse combining a processing plant and storage vaults will soon be built. The diggings themselves consist of a hole scarcely 2 ft. deep, and 3 ft. by 12 ft. wide. The work is done entirely by hand, since emeralds-unlike diamonds, which can be put through a crusher without harm-split easily...