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...Newark, N.J., 15-year-old Bill Mc-Henry went to school with a .32 caliber revolver and a handful of shells, in due time opened fire on his shop instructor in manual training class. His three shots went wild...
Outside Rome's most elegant hotel last week a tattered legion of would-be emigrants kept watch by one of Europe's few exits. When Juan Peron's Government announced that Argentina wanted manual workers (TIME Jan. 27), hundreds of Italians streamed through the plushy corridors of the Grand Hotel, where the immigration commission was set up. After a few days of this, the management brushed them out through the revolving door towards the rainy Piazza, dell' Esedra. Here, under the pampered ilex trees, they waited their turn, munched bread and cheese, lounged against...
...Hyman manual leaves to specialists major surgery and the treatment of complicated ailments. But it provides the family doctor with a meticulously illustrated guide for diagnosing and coordinating treatments for almost every human ill. Conveniently indexed so that a doctor can start with symptoms and follow through to the latest approved treatment, it is a shrewd mixture of modern science and common sense...
...meeting's end, the argument between the humanists and the gadgeteers had invaded philosophy. Said Walter, icily: "Dr. Gibbs says that for his purposes the manual analysis is good enough. It may be for his purposes, but perhaps his purposes are not adequate. The brain is very complex. It is more complicated than the universe itself. We know a great deal about matter but very little about the mind, and it is about time we were finding out something...
...your article "End of the Road" [TIME, Oct. 21] your reference to General Stilwell "setting the pace with a brisk 105 steps to the minute" seems quite strange to one subject to Army drill regulations. According to Field Manual 22-5 (Feb. 1946), quick time-the normal cadence of a group marching-is 120 steps per minute. This is surely not a brisk gait. Did TIME make a mistake as to "105 steps to the minute...