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...operation for sterilization was rare indeed, except under state auspices for sterilization of the insane. It has now become much commoner. There has been no detectable increase in New England or the Southeast, but some big cities of the middle Atlantic seaboard report a moderate increase. In some smaller Midwestern cities and the border states, vasectomy has become a fad, with doctors themselves setting the trend and joking about having been "clipped." In one prairie city of 250,000, two urologists who share an office do an annual average of 50 vasectomies apiece. Around Los Angeles the increase has been...
JOHNNY APPLESEED: MAN AND MYTH, by Robert Price (320 pp.; Indiana University; $5). Helped along by poets, folklorists, chambers of commerce and generations of Midwestern grannies, the legend of Johnny Appleseed has lengthened until lots of American kids are as sure as God made little apples that Johnny planted every orchard in the land. In this unassumingly authoritative book. Author Price, who lives in Ohio's Appleseed country, good-humoredly sorts out reluctant fact from ready fancy. Lugging a knapsack with apple seeds into the wilderness about 1800, Massachusetts-born John Chapman for the next 45 years planted...
...couple of expendable Midwestern Republicans also went by the elective boards. Michigan's Representative Kit Clardy, who used to go around Washington muttering about "those Communists in the White House," ran on a platform of "I will vote as I please." Michiganders decided Clardy wouldn't vote at all-at least not in the House. And Illinois' C. W. ("Runt") Bishop was defeated after a 14-year House career marked only by his having been the manager of the Republican House baseball team...
Possible presidential ambitions aside, Dewey certainly has no desire to lose his position of leadership in the Republican Party. As a bulwark of liberal Republicanism, he cannot relish the prospect of party control passing to his long-time antagonists, the midwestern Republicans...
President Pusey yesterday defended the University's policy on so-called "Fifth Amendment Communists" before an audience of 1,000 Midwestern business executives and declared it "extremely unlikely" that there are now any Communists on the Faculty...