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MacArthur supporters were daunted at the small size of the crowds that came to hear his speeches-27,000 at the 75,000-seat Cotton Bowl in Dallas, 15,000 at a high-school stadium in Fort Worth-but his critics were probably hasty-hopeful in counting empty seats as evidence that he had begun to fade away. In each city, nearly everybody turned out to see him on the parade route; the stadium crowds were small for a football game but large for an evening speech, particularly when it could be heard more comfortably on the radio or seen...
...startling statistic last week made a front-page sensation out of a subject usually discussed only in the improbable columns of the Sunday supplements: narcotics addiction. New York City's Superintendent of Schools William Jansen, questioned during a state narcotics investigation, testified that one out of every 200 high-school students in the city are users of habit-forming drugs...
...Minimum draft age will be lowered from 19 to 18½ with registration at 18. Service is extended from 21 to 24 months, plus six years in reserve. High-school students may be deferred until they are 20, college students until the end of the school year...
Illustrated Lecture. In Vicksburg, Mich., thieves stole $100 from the high-school principal's office while Circuit Judge Raymond W. Fox addressed the students on "Crime and Punishment...
...York City's Superintendent of Schools William Jansen had some news that was apparently intended to be reassuring. After a poll of his junior and senior high-school principals, he reported: there are only 154 known cases of drug addiction in the city's schools (including 22 girls), and 35 suspected cases. Rate of addiction: one in 2,000 students...