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...David M. Kellogg, 34-year-old Seattle veteran who was awarded Russia's Patriotic War Order, First Class, as commander of a U.S. destroyer escort in the North Atlantic, discovered that his medal carried a monthly pension of 20 rubles for life. Fortnight ago he walked into the Soviet consulate in San Francisco, walked out with $462.79, for 26 months' back...
...skulls, temple to temple and cheekbone to cheekbone. Four years ago, the Japanese had massacred the bearers of these heads; the Chinese government had simply placed the skulls (and neatly heaped bones) on a hill so that all the living might see what war meant. Last fortnight people outside Hunan saw this war memorial...
...fortnight later Snedaker was deep in the kind of trouble that he-and TLI-have grown used to. This time it was that ancient ravager, cholera. Egypt's efficient efforts to control the epidemic produced a web of anti-cholera regulations which extended to nearby countries. Snedaker felt their effect when the plane carrying the films from which TIME is printed was ordered to avoid Egypt. Substitute films, rushed from the U.S. via London, arrived just two days before issue date...
...Last fortnight, her 2,500-word report on the Princess Elizabeth wedding was dashed off in time to make the London Evening Standard's early afternoon edition and the New York Herald Tribune's morning edition (TIME, Dec. 1). It was a mood piece with one notable dig at the Labor government. Her jab was about a huge national savings advertisement sign opposite Westminster Abbey: "An imaginative administration would surely have blanketed it for this...
This plan, voted by San Franciscans ten years ago over doctors' objections, has had a rough career. Because members' payments were set too low, doctors have often been paid less than the scheduled fees. Last fortnight, aroused by rebuffs of their demands for a 15% raise in fees, and by Medical Director Alexander S. Keenan's suggestion that they had needlessly pyramided costs by calling for too many laboratory tests and X rays, the doctors finally rebelled...