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...injuries suffered when struck by an automobile; in Miami Beach. Billed as "the Tiffany Songsters," Van and Schenck harmonized such tuneful memories as My Melancholy Baby and All She'd Say Was "Umh Hum" in a top-hat-and-cane act that made them a mainstay of the Ziegfeld Follies before it all ended when Schenck died...
...Against the background of white resentment, the colored communities are growing restive. Last week 1,000 Pakistanis demonstrated in London against what they called the government's failure to redress the grievances of the Pakistani community. Much of their bitterness is justified. Colored doctors and nurses are a mainstay of Britain's nationalized medicine, and bus services throughout Britain would grind to a halt without colored crews. No matter. Home Secretary James Callaghan, pressured by public opinion, told Parliament that the government will legislate against the loopholes in Britain's immigration laws...
...personal writing style. They have also grown more willing to court controversy. "We are trying to create an atmosphere in which people can speak about formerly taboo subjects," says Yomiuri Editor in Chief Yosoji Kobayashi. Not that the press is ever likely to depart from its role as a mainstay of the social structure. As a Tokyo city editor puts it, "We must be Japanese first, and then newspapermen...
...many a man, enforced retirement is a trying ordeal; he loses contact with colleagues who have been the mainstay of his social group, and so feels excluded and rejected. In some cases he develops a state of depression marked by listlessness, poor appetite, and an increasing number of real but unnecessary ailments that drive him to the doctor. Wives, too, can become upset by having a man underfoot all day. Dr. Wright quoted one: "I married George for life, but not for lunch." This new discord, he warned, can lead to the breakup of a long marriage...
...manure spreaders that cost $600 to 13-ton tractors selling for $36,000. Three-fourths of all farms now have at least one tractor, and some have a dozen or more; back in 1952 there were tractors on only 47% of all U.S. farms. While the tractor remains the mainstay-some 5,000,000 are in use on today's farms-the agricultural arsenal also includes 880,000 grain combines, 775,000 hay balers, 655,000 corn pickers and shelters. Virtually all of the nation's wheat, corn and sugar beets are now harvested by machine...