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...peak and may be tapering off. Total cases so far this polio season: a "normal" 12,221. ¶ The Pentagon sent out a nationwide malaria alert to state health officers. More than 800 soldiers returning from Korea have been found to have active malaria parasites in their blood; home-grown Anopheles mosquitoes can spread the infection. Danger zones: Georgia (237 active cases), Oklahoma (101), Kentucky (97), Colorado (65), Wisconsin (60). ¶ The A.M.A. proudly reported a total of 26,191 potential doctors enrolled in 79 U.S. medical schools last year, a 22.5% increase over prewar. <¶ Not all the heroes...
Earthy Aura. Eisenhower men are wasting no time. Eisenhower-for-President headquarters are already staked out in Kansas, longtime home of the Eisenhower family. Ex-Senator Harry Darby of Kansas City, astute, wealthy G.O.P. national committeeman, who took over control of the state Republican machine from Alf Landon, is in charge. Kansas and Darby will give Ike's candidacy a genuine home-grown and earthy aura. The Kansans are grateful for Eisenhower's support from Eastern industrialists and political leaders, but do not want to get Ike too thoroughly identified with them. They are even thinking of balancing...
...home-grown brand of Kentuckian is not necessarily as lean, long and hard-driving as the University of Kentucky's Basketball Coach Adolph Rupp would like, but there are other states: each year dozens of slat-shaped aspirants from all over the U.S. trek to Rupp's office in Lexington, many of them at their own expense, to try out for Rupp's team. The 1948 crop (four Kentuckians, eight outlanders) was particularly potent; it won the national championship, and its starting five went on to the U.S. Olympic squad and later to professional careers. Last year...
Wherever he got the chance, the voter swung at home-grown subversives. Maryland approved the Ober law, once ruled unconstitutional by a state circuit court. It requires a loyalty oath from state employees and candidates, sets up a maximum penalty of $20,000 fine and 20 years in prison for attempting or advocating overthrow of the U.S.-or of the Free State of Maryland. Michigan approved a sweeping definition of subversion, authorized its legislature to take up anti-commie laws from there...
...justice available to the poor as well as the coffee barons. He gave Brazil the 48-hour week, a minimum wage, pensions, vacations with pay. He also banned strikes, abolished Congress and founded the Estado Novo, an "authoritative democracy" complete with a fascist-type constitution, press censorship, and a home-grown gestapo. When the Nazis swept over Europe in 1940, Vargas proclaimed: "It is not the end of civilization :>ut the beginning, tumultuous and fecund...