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...mayor said it would "take 27,000 men or women to turn off by hand the street lights. . . . There are 27,000 separate switches." The Board of Estimate appropriated $25,000 for sirens. One horn was tried. Citizens a few blocks away, anxiously listening, heard nothing but a faint moo. Most people heard nothing...
...neighborhood health center crowded 44 buzzing citizens, ranging from a boy in green corduroy slacks to a determined-looking grandmother. They all came to learn First Aid from a Red Cross teacher. The teacher bustled around selling the Red Cross textbook, warning the students to keep cool, not to faint at the sight of blood. "If you see an accident," he said, "call a doctor at once. Your job is to make a victim comfortable, and prevent complications. You are not a substitute for a trained physician...
...optimistic over the likelihood of substitution, and engineers are already eying Ford's elaborate, automatic machines for making cylinder sleeves. Overnight these can be adapted, with no essential changes, to making 80,000 sleeve-like steel shell casings per day. The Army eyes the whole project with faint, traditional mistrust...
...Aragon-onetime Dadaist ringleader, left-wing journalist, soldier of World Wars I and II-begins in a false brightness: In 1889 a tremulous dream of hope hung over the world, a miracle world of science, progress, peace. Of course there was always a spatter of gunfire somewhere far off, faint rumbles and stenches from below. But people hoped that all the remaining corruption and debris would be swept away in the magic fin de siècle, that the birth of a new century would be a cleansing and a rebirth...
Died. Dr. John Stanley Plaskett, 75, Canadian astronomer, a leading authority on the motions of faint stars, the Milky Way's rotation, the nature of matter in interstellar space; in Esquimalt, British Columbia. Two of the largest stars, "Plaskett's Twins," were named after...