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Health Minister Aneurin Bevan and his closest political friends believe that Socialism is like a bicycle;-if it stops, it topples. Therefore they have long advocated a fast, nonstop nationalization of British industries. Last week it was apparent that the Bevan group had given some ground to the go-slow faction headed by Herbert Morrison. Labor issued the first draft of the platform on which it hopes to be re-elected next year, and the gist was that the Socialist bicycle would move forward at a greatly reduced rate of speed...
Paraguay's 300,000-odd adult males found time on Easter Sunday to go through the motions of electing a President. To no one's surprise, they plumped for Felipe Molas López, the 49-year-old dentist who has run the government since Feb. 26, when he seized power in Paraguay's sixth coup in 13 months. There was no other candidate. In the preceding week, Molas López received a much more significant endorsement. Following the lead of several of Paraguay's neighbors, six countries, including the U.S., formally recognized...
Preston Tucker, would-be auto manufacturer whose company has been having its financial troubles, proved that his car can really go, but money was still a problem. In Gary, Ind., he pleaded guilty to racing his Tucker Torpedo 55 m.p.h. in a 40-mile zone, could find only $10 in his pockets to meet a $15 fine...
...experts, who have seen tests for cancer come & go, argued about the value of the Huggins test. Some said it had yet to be proved. Others said that even if it were proved, it would merely screen the sick from the well, and could not be called a diagnostic test for cancer...
...restraint, he got permission to try the method. In his own ward at the Milwaukee County Asylum, 32 patients had been tied up. He took the restraints off every one. Says he: "The freed patients were like horses that were tied up for years in the barn. Let them go and they run and kick. So I let them. They were happier than they had been for years. I figured there'd be lots of fights. But there weren't any." One of his patients, who had been in constant restraint for eight years, is now in charge...