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Back to Kickbacks? Bosch said last week that he was leaving public office on doctor's orders. Undoubtedly, he was fed up with politicos. He had done the job he had been asked to do, but he realized that as the 1952 presidential campaign drew nearer, pressure would grow to finance the government campaign out of the Treasury, as it was financed more or less in 1948. Said Havana's newspaper Alerta: "Bosch took office to the profound disgust of the politicians, and leaves accompanied by their broad smiles as they wait outside the ministry doors to assault...
Specious reasoning, retorted Physicist Ralph E. Lapp, author of the un-scared book, Must We Hide?. Explosions often have freakish effects. Even comparatively feeble ones have freakishly broken windows many miles away, leaving nearer windows unbroken. One cause: an "inversion" (layer of warm air) in the atmosphere, that reflects shock waves downward -and may concentrate them...
...well-fed?--because orange-onion salads and other gastronomic specialities come his way as a steady diner at Harvard's most popular eating establishment. Rested?--because his House is nearer the Yard than any other...
There is an occasional transfer from Yale, too. One was William E. Wiggin '50 1L, who came just to be nearer his home. He claims to have had a "good time" in both places...
Heal Thyself. In Poplar Bluff, Mo., while rushing to fight a fire, Fireman Bimel Wheelis detected smoke fumes nearer home, discovered his own hat was ablaze...