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...hell, wondering what to do next and rattling on, and I make this innocent statement-something like: 'Hey, kids, I'll do your homework for you if you need help. Got lots of time.' " The invitation was no sooner out than the station's dormant night switchboard lit up like an electric train...
Soviet satellites Bulgaria and Albania immediately accepted the invitation. So far, predictable. Yugoslavia's Comrade Tito called the proposal "very useful," but did not immediately accept. He indicated that he wanted to consult with Greece and Turkey, his partners in the dormant anti-Kremlin Balkan pact of 1954. It now became obvious that the proposal came as no surprise to him, and must have grown out of Tito's meeting with Khrushchev in Rumania last month. But it was considerably less clear who fathered the scheme, and who stood to gain most by its acceptance or rejection...
...Future. Underlying the new atmosphere is a better understanding of what private power can and cannot do. Encouraged by the "partnership" policy during the first Eisenhower term, long-dormant private companies have meshed with local public utilities since 1952 to open up new projects adding some 4,500,000 kw. to the Northwest power pool. But such projects are chiefly local, barely keep abreast of minimum needs...
...Basil O'Connor's birthday conference, Vaccinventor Jonas E. Salk had fun with what he admitted was a flight of fancy: that the kind of vaccine he developed against polio might some day be used against other diseases, including ulcers. Many viruses, Salk noted, can lie dormant for years in the human body (a common example is the virus of the cold sore). Some may attack the nerves and do only slight initial damage. In later life these neglected infections may have serious aftereffects. For instance, said Salk, severe hypertension and gastric or duodenal ulcers can occur...
...coral islands (pop. 93,000) some 400 miles southwest of Ceylon whose sultans have basked under the protection of the British navy since 1795. The rent (amount undisclosed) Britain has agreed to pay for Gan should provide a long-needed shot in the arm to the all but dormant Maldivian economy (now mainly dependent on shipments of fish to Ceylon). As for Britain's chances of hanging on to her new base-"It is difficult," said the Times of London, "to imagine either extreme nationalism or a scrupulous addiction to neutrality arising seriously in the Maldives...