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Continuing a recent trend, the northeastern states showed heartening declines in polio case rates (see map). In the southeast, Florida stood out as a plague spot. California's total was boosted by the local epidemic in Los Angeles. In sparsely populated states, relatively few cases justified an epidemic rating-e.g., Wyoming with 98 and Nevada with 60. Most hopeful factor in the situation was the absence of severe polio outbreaks in most of the Middle West, which had been hard hit for several years. For the U.S. as a whole, statisticians figured that an individual's chance...
...President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee expressed their thanks to her. But Allan Pinkerton, head of the Chicago detective agency, finally caught her with some elementary spy work of his own (he peered through a window of her Washington home, saw a Union officer hand her a map). Placed under house arrest. Rebel Rose managed to continue her espionage by such devices as the smuggling out of messages concealed in pink balls of yarn. Properly jailed in January 1862, she was pardoned six months later and left prison wrapped in a Confederate flag. She finally died...
...some of our independent research reports on magazine audiences, marketing studies and consumer buying habits. For many years, teachers of political science, speech and English have used TIME itself as a supplementary text in their classes. For these thousands of teachers we prepare and supply material ranging from special map enlargements to an annual TIME cover quiz...
...stops at the water's edge, leaving U.S. port cities vulnerable to sneak atomic attack. Last week the Air Force revealed that it plans to eliminate part of the gap with a string of artificial, radar-equipped Atlantic "islands," located from Newfoundland to the Virginia capes (see map) and as far as 150 miles offshore...
...mimes and dances she displayed "[first] her uplifted bosom, and then the whole of her harmonious nudity." But she continued to write, too, and her subject matter was as nude as her mimes. The world of the senses became Colette's special province, and she proceeded to map it with audacious knowingness...