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Blasting Round the Bend. Despite the heavy traffic on the rivers, barge operators talk poor mouth out of a fear of a proposal to levy a 2?-a-gallon fuel tax on users of the waterways, which have hitherto been toll free. The rivermen are even more upset over a threat from the nation's railroads, which whenever they run parallel to barge traffic are required by federal law to charge 6% more for freight than the barges. Arguing that federal maintenance of the waterways amounts to a subsidy to barge operators, the railroads have asked ICC permission...
...volume. Anticipating this raggedy sort of immortality, Thurber once poked through his papers and. in The Notebooks of James Thurber, listed seven deterrents to their publication: "persistent illegibility, paucity of material, triviality of content, ambiguity of meaning, facetious approach, preponderance of juvenilia and exasperating abbreviation." In this volume of hitherto uncollected sketches, essays and profiles, only the problems of illegibility and abbreviation have been solved...
...more of a private unit, it was increasingly preoccupied with the child, immuring him for his own good in the highly disciplined boarding school of the 18th and 19th centuries. Writes Aries: "The solicitude of family, church, moralists and administrators deprived the child of the freedom he had hitherto enjoyed among adults. It inflicted on him the birch, the prison cell-in a word, the punishments usually reserved for convicts from the lowest strata of society. But this severity was the expression of a very different feeling from the old indifference: an obsessive love which was to dominate society from...
...region has produced a crippling kind of lung disease, "T-Y asthma." Hitherto healthy G.I.s are seized late at night with uncontrollable coughing and wheezing, leaving them exhausted and panicked by fears of suffocation. Treatments for ordinary asthma do no good; between nightly bouts, the victims suffer continuously from shortness of breath. Japanese doctors do not recognize this as a unique form of asthma, but this does not mean the Japanese are immune: five native Japanese have come down with it, and the only victim who died was a Nisei from Hawaii. Army medics once thought that evacuation from...
...easy for him to ask for American arms. Right now, it is important not to push him into a corner in public." Another Cabinet minister, who does not like Nehru, also counsels patience: "His will to resist will wear down. It is already worn down a long way. Hitherto, there was no opposition at all in India. Now, Nehru is relying on his opposition. He may hate it. He has been thrown into the company of people like me, people he does not like. We make strange bedfellows, but together we are going...