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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite uncalled for. . . . The demand for Pakistan was not a result of Jinnah's imagination, but was a natural outcome of a long economic exploitation of the Moslem masses by the Hindus, who are not even now prepared to adopt a compromising attitude and to give them their due...
TIME's editors have long been accustomed to leaving their desks periodically for refresher trips to the areas of the world they write about, and Welles was due for just such a trip. He had last seen Europe in 1944 as a wartime member of the U.S. State Department in London, on leave from TIME. Moreover, he wanted to resume his own kind of globetrotting, which began when he went to Oxford University in 1935 on a Rhodes scholarship from Princeton and, in the course of acquiring an honors degree in modern history, stayed abroad for 39 months...
...Orleans' Dr. Robert A. Katz, a diabetic himself, has been working hard for four years on a promising treatment for gangrene due to diabetic hardening of the arteries. He discovered that intravenous ether injections dramatically stopped pain and cleared up the gangrene (TIME, March 10). Ether, the doctor thinks, opens up the tightened blood vessels and thereby improves circulation...
Automatic Pickup. General Motors' Buick division, which plans to make only minor body changes in its 1948 model due in January, still plans a major mechanical revolution. The '48 Buick Roadmaster, said the division, will have no clutch, clutch pedal, or customary gear shift. For normal driving, the motorist will merely have to push a button; the accelerator will do the rest. There is also a reverse gear and "emergency low" for snow and mud. With rising production and a backlog of 520,000 unfilled orders, Buick hopes next year to pass Plymouth, into third place behind Chevrolet...
Little by little, due to what the Princetonian quaintly calls "innumerable broken bones," the sprees acquired regulations. Today they are little more than minor Olympic matches with the Sophomores and Freshmen fielding teams in touch football, softball, track, and topping it off with wrestling bouts for the possession of the grand old cane...