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Government. As supervisor of the Social Security Administration, she is custodian of old-age funds for 67 million people ($17.7 billion gathering interest), disburser of pensions and welfare funds amounting to $4 billion a year, the protector of the nation's disabled and needy, orphans and old folks. In the name of the President and the Public Health Service, she manages one of the world's greatest medical research centers, provides operations for harelipped children and blue babies, maintains hospitals for merchant seamen and dope addicts, an insane asylum and a leprosarium. Through the Office of Education...
...rejected Switzerland as a suitable neutral custodian, apparently on no other ground than that the U.N.'s espousal of Switzerland ("a neutral status," Harrison said, "which is obviously unsurpassed") rendered that country unacceptable to the Reds...
They rejected the U.N.'s proposal of a 60-day custody period, claiming that six months might be needed to persuade the North Koreans and Chinese that it was safe to go home. They rejected the U.N.'s suggestion that the neutral custodian should take over its charges in Korea, insisted that prisoners must be transported to the neutral country...
Since the Communists say that they are now willing to turn over to neutral custody any war prisoners unwilling to accept repatriation, General Harrison suggested that Switzerland would qualify nicely as such a neutral. Harrison also proposed that: 1) to save the trouble and expense of transportation, the neutral custodian could take over its charges in Korea, and 2) a period of 60 days might be allowed to the neutral custodian for assessing the wishes of the prisoners it holds. Harrison's letter closed with a clear warning that another bout of Red stalling and filibustering would be answered...
Impressionists. In Springfield, Mass., Custodian Alexander Caranicholas went to the hospital and Custodian Frank Klupa went to court after fighting over the use of a mop-pail in the Museum of Fine Arts...