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Legislature. Eire will once more have a bicameral government, the Bail (lower house), the Senate (upper house). Year ago the Senate was abolished because it was a nuisance politically to de Valera's party, Fianna Fail. More than two-thirds of the 60 new Senators will be elected as representatives of the arts, agriculture, commerce, industry...
Flat feet, according to Dr. Schwartz, are usually due to malalignment of the heel bone with the tibia (larger of the two long bones in the lower leg). Side swing of the heel throws all the muscles and tendons of the foot out of balance. "Since the tendons act as slings for the 26 bones of the foot," reasons Dr. Schwartz, "those bones then have a tendency to slip out of their anatomical arrangement...
...their own special job to begin. These were rivermen, skilled riders and drivers of logs. About 200 of them had drifted in from points north and north-west where log driving is still an annual affair. They had what the Scandinavians call "snus" (pinches of snuff) in their lower lips, steel on their feet and names like "The Beaver," "Big. Ben" and "Dirty Dan" to awe less colorful citizens...
Rough water along the lower part of the Basin cut the scheduled time trial of the Varsity 150 pound crew and the third Varsity short to a half mile yesterday afternoon. But in that brief spin along the Cambridge shore it was evident again that Bert Haines' current first eight is one that easily stands alongside Tom Bolles' Varsity and Jayvee boatloads in excellence...
TRUMPET OF JUBILEE-Ludwig Lew-isohn-Harper ($2.50). Apocalyptic family chronicle of a German-Jewish family whose experiences range from Hitler concentration camps to the World Wars of 1940-2000, fought successfully to make the world safe for the lower forms of animal life. About equal parts of Zionism, Wellsian phantasy...