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...misleading, slanted, self-serving, statistical mumbo-jumbos, pp. 13-15, TIME, June 30, stand as a monument...
...tired old military term: fluid. There are few "committed" Democratic delegates who would not switch to someone else if Harry Truman or some of the big state bosses gave the nod. In Washington, just about anybody, with the possible exception of the elevator man in the Washington Monument, was being talked about as a possible candidate. This is how the chances of Democratic hopefuls looked last week...
...scramble to pay the most eloquent tribute to ailing Evita Perón became a feverish rush last week. The Peronista majority in Congress voted to build a monument to her. The governor of Buenos Aires Province ordered her autobiography, The Reason for My Life, used as a textbook in all the province's public schools. Health Minister Ramón Carillo directed that in 508 hospitals and clinics under his department Masses be said for her "quick and complete recovery...
...massaging just the fat parts of the body may make those parts bigger. Surgery is dangerous. And exercise is hopeless: to take off one pound, said Dr. Ralph E. De Forest, a fat man would have to walk 36 miles, or do 2,400 pushups, or climb the Washington Monument 48 times. After losing some weight by dieting, the patient should take a little gentle exercise, such as walking or golf, and then go on to swimming. One trouble with heavy exercise: it boosts the appetite...
Citation: "This unique couple . . . have reared for themselves a monument of the American pioneer spirit in education. Deerfield Academy, their happy seat . . . hand in hand for half a century they have been molding . . . the lives of generations of young men, having in every boy the faith that moves mountains...