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...unique. There are anywhere from 50,000 to 100,000 children like him in South Viet Nam. Some are the direct casualties of deadly ordnance fired by both sides. Others are indirect victims, burned while trying to use jet fuel for cooking, scarred by a wasting sickness called noma which is brought on by malnutrition, or crippled by other diseases that might be brought under control during peacetime. But Lang is a little luckier than most. He is being treated at the Center for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Saigon, the only place in Viet Nam that can help large...
Merger proposals come at an ill time in one sense. Radcliffe needs wide alumnae financial support for its Building Fund Drive, yet at the same moment must announce it is considering disappearing. The appeal of mater noma will survive at least. The Radcliffe Institute intends to keep its name regardless of undergraduate liaison. Still, by the time merger could be completed, the fund drive will most likely be over...
...town of Graceville (Pop. 2,500) squats just inside the Florida line, in the company of Noma and Esto and Miller Crossroads, like a turtle broiling in the oppressive Florida Panhandle. The monotonous inland heat is broken only by occasional swirls of wind which lift the fine sand from the sidewalks and scatter it against the weathered frame buildings. Along Brown Street, the main drag, ragged white farmers and mute Negroes sprawl on benches propped against the buildings in the shade of awnings. There is not much for them to do except read the Dothan (Ala.) Eagle or dip snuff...
...cliff dwellers still roll out their gaily colored futons (quilts) at night, and drape them over balcony railings to air during the day. But the traditional toko-noma, the alcove in which the family displayed its scrolls and flower arrangements, has given way to built-in cupboards. Central heating has taken the place of the hibachi (brazier) and of the kotatsu, the hole in the floor filled with hot coals to keep the family feet warm...
...Louis' Magic Chef, Inc., biggest U.S. stovemaker. He replaces Arthur Stock-strom, 62, who becomes board chairman. Dunn started in the stove business 27 years ago as a door-to-door salesman for Estate, became Estate's president in 1952 after it was taken over by Noma Electric Corp. (now Northeast Capital Corp.). Dunn pulled Estate out of the red with a sweeping cost-control and product-improvement program. This year he negotiated the sale of the company to RCA, remained as its boss. At Magic Chef, Dunn faces the same problem he had at Estate: the company...