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...problem (not peculiar to North Carolina) has been the dearth of highly susceptible teen-agers at polio clinics or in doctors' private offices. Parents eagerly drag the moppets in by the hand, but ap parently leave teen-agers to fend for themselves. Greensboro's Dr. Samuel Ravenel, who sparked the state drive, tried to remedy this with a slogan: "Walk with Salk, so you can rock 'n' roll." Evi dently it took, because teen-agers made up about half the Guilford queues. In Gibsonville Mrs. Thomas Scoggins took in her five-month-old baby...
Indonesia's army is well trained, high-spirited and bigger than the nation can comfortably afford. Since 1952 the army has had to fend for itself, living haphazardly on inadequate special appropriations because no government has lasted long enough in office to get a budget through Parliament. Army forces in north Sumatra found smuggling a practical solution to the budget gap. Rubber smuggling is big business: last year Malaya officially bought five times as much rubber from Indonesia as Indonesia officially exported. It was also profitable: the army acknowledged having earned...
...nation's Capitol has been a center of stormy artistic controversy ever since Amateur Architect Dr. William Thornton had to fend off the claims of his professional rival, Stephen Hallet, to get the credit for his 1793 plan. Last week it was once again the focus of debate. At issue this time: a $12 million appropriation voted by the House to start remodeling the east facade (plus another $28.5 million to remodel the two congressional office buildings and begin building a third...
There is a truce between the sexes. Un like 13-year-olds, the boys no longer automatically go off together at a party, leaving the girls to fend for themselves. Basically, Fourteen is a social animal. He is intrigued by the notion of "personality." When asked about her best friend, a girl will say: "I have a whole bunch of best friends." For the girls especially, this is the age of communication. School is a place to gossip in; home is a place to telephone from...
...majority in both parties which has supported our foreign policies over the fifteen years has thus far largely conceived of them as a series of arrangements which will fend off the aggressive and intrusive forces in the world outside and leave us free to work out our own American destiny in our own way. Implicit in such a concept is the persistent conviction that foreign affairs, except when war is imminent, are largely a marginal consideration...