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...Philco Corp., leafed through his weather reports last week and broke out a sunny smile. "It hit 90° in Indianapolis, 91° in Chicago, 92° in Cleveland, 93° in Knoxville, and even higher in the Deep South," he exulted. "If only this nice hot, humid weather continues, we'll really sell air conditioners this year...
Togoland is a hot and humid little country lying between Ghana (which won its independence from Britain) and Nigeria (which is about to). The blacks, about 1,100,000 strong, far outnumber Togoland's 2,000-odd Europeans. A former German protectorate, Togoland has, since 1922, been run by the French, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under a U.N. trusteeship. Its hottest politician is Premier Sylvanus Olympic, whose family once were slaves in Brazil...
Recorded music hours and Yard punches filled out the regular social program, with occasional square dances adding to the fun. Two of these, however, were squeezed into the humid Union and one was scheduled during a week filled with hour exams. Occasionally, folk singing pervaded small corners of the Yard in the dark hours, and lounging on the steps of the girls' dorms (that was as far as men could get) also consumed evening time. Some students asked for more social events, others for a less formally organized program; those who did not go away weekends found nothing planned after...
...with such stars as Bob Hope (in Roberta) and Andy Devine (in Show Boat), and, despite four rained-out performances, pulled a record 650,000 customers. It was a big enough gate to win the battle against night baseball, TV and home air conditioning, no small matter in the humid Missouri summer...
...Lebanon. Seattle-born, Stanford educated ('31), Bob McClintock fell in love with the Foreign Service during a college trip to Europe, joined up in 1931, rose through the global ranks to the Policy-Planning Staff as specialist on Southeast Asia. Assigned by President Eisenhower last year to crowded, humid Beirut, spruce and able Ambassador McClintock ran a polished show, still found time to keep trim with push-ups and strolls at the far end of his black poodle's leash. As Lebanon drifted toward civil war, he was credited with recommending the U.S. policy of keeping President Camille...