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...world's economic storms. Textile retailers have not yet unloaded the huge stocks they built up when the Korean war began. And British Commonwealth countries, seeking solvency, have slashed all imports, including Lancashire cloth. To relieve unemployment, the British gov ernment did what little it could. Heavier orders for military uniforms and blankets would be placed in Lancashire mills. Imports of foreign grey (i.e., unfinished) cloth would be banned forthwith. Non-textile firms would be asked to settle in Lancashire so that whole families and cities would not slump together when the cotton mills close...
...more important, the audience was restless when the Harvard Band appeared for the second half of its concert. Somehow Malcolm Holmes '28 manages to have his musicians perform one superb concert after another. Even in the heavier textured pieces of Prokofiev and Moussorgsky, the band sounded richer and fuller than ever before. The other familiar pieces were sharp and exciting, as always...
Died. John Thomas Moore, 65, who, on a windy day in December 1903, lent a hand putting a flying machine on a runway, was the last surviving witness to the Wright brothers' historic first heavier-than-air flight at Kitty Hawk; of a self-inflicted shotgun wound; on Colington Island...
...Pyromen should be tried first on Shirley. "I was scared," Dr. Schopp says now. "But I knew the antidotes in case we needed them. We tried the drug cautiously, but in two weeks we could see improvement. We stopped the dosage for a while, then tried smaller doses and heavier doses. We were groping in the dark. But she has steadily improved. Shirley could barely move her arms before, now she runs around raising hell. She has only one slight muscle weakness in her left leg, and that's improving...
...flight line four shining Sabre-jet fighters were spread about, and a couple of heavier F-94's were off to the side. The editors, and also a large group of visiting Rotarians, looked on silently as a voluble guide explained the achievements of American jet planes. The Rotarians, many of them touching the jets gently as they walked by, wandered off to another part of the field...