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...announcement of compact cars from Detroit reminds me of the story of the circus that advertised having "the biggest midget in the world...
...Midget Centers. Georgia is one of 44 states with centralized machinery for attracting general practitioners to rural areas. Many young doctors are reluctant to try it because they fear professional isolation, want to be near good hospitals. Virginia and Kansas pioneered with plans to have communities build midget medical centers and lease them (sometimes at $1 a year) to doctors in sectors remote from hospitals. The Sears, Roebuck Foundation works through the A.M.A. in offering communities help in planning, financing, building and equipping the centers. Last week Dr. Sills got his permanent license from the Georgia Board of Medical Examiners...
During the opening sessions the well-financed Russians had comparatively little to say. Most striking papers came from Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory, whose single seagoing ship, the battered schooner Vema, is a midget compared to the Lomonosov and more than once has been embarrassed in out-of-the-way ports for lack of money to buy supplies. Lament Men Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen, both members of an oceanographic subspecies whose real interest is the bottom, told how the Vema's probing-on-a-shoestring may have solved the ancient mystery of how the earth...
Other Japanese carmakers have entered the sweepstakes. The second biggest, Nissan Motor Co., has shipped to the U.S. 2,700 Datsuns (37 h.p., 40 m.p.g.) that sell for $1,616, plans this month to bring in a still lower-priced model, next month to ship quarter-ton pickups and midget station wagons (50 h.p., 40 m.p.g.) to sell for about $1,600. Osaka's giant Daihatsu cartel has started to sell its three-wheeled midget pickup truck called Trimobile. U.S. price...
...captain's colleague, Mr. Green Jeans-played by Lumpy Brannum, onetime bass fiddler for Fred Waring-brings along a variety of live animals, explains their habits to the kids; lately he has turned up with a midget pony, a coati, a kinkajou, and a ten-week-old Himalayan sun bear. Another colleague, Cosmo ("Gus") Allegretti, inhabits the skin of the durable Dancing Bear, is also the prime mover behind other sympathetic creatures-Bunny Rabbit, Mr. Moose and the somnolent Grandfather Clock. Without prompting devices. Actor Keeshan, 32, meanders around the set using man-to-man language that can make...