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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dollar than the U.S. The fact that the Soviets make loans rather than gifts is not resented as tightfisted, instead flatters the touchy pride of newly independent nations as businesslike dealing between equals. When they insist that the factories they build must be state property, Russian negotiators are often more in tune with the vaguely socialist ideology of most Afro-Asians than are U.S. aid administrators in their attempts to promote free enterprise. Needing raw materials and food that the underdeveloped countries produce, the Russians can profitably make barter deals that the U.S. has no use for. Their apparent...
...handles 30 to 40 scoliosis cases-about half of them of unknown cause, most of the others resulting from paralytic polio. The polio cases tend to be more severe because other parts of the body are also weakened; usually a greater part of the spine has to be fused, often in a series of operations. But post-polio cases are already becoming markedly less common, thanks largely to the success of the Salk vaccine...
...good idea, poorly executed. Only the roguish mugging of Movie Comedian Oakie, who at 54 should not have to worry about a rating, kept Battle above the lower echelons of taste that often characterize the actual rivalry on which it was modeled...
...worked at nearby Holloman Air Force Base (like all 50 FM owners), his wife Sima handled the daytime broadcasts, wrote copy, answered the phone and managed to look after four children between platters and chatter. As feeding time grew near, the squalls of her baby son often punctuated her spot announcements, but nobody seemed to mind. After work (designing instruments for rockets and balloons) Max took over the control board; on weekends he canvassed merchants to sell time, traveled about to help install FM sets...
Gasping Tractors. One hundred miles from the Pole, the going got worse. The altitude, 11,000 ft., made the faithful tractors gasp for breath, and the snow got so soft that they often sank deeply into it and had to be manhandled out. Once the unemotional Hillary radioed: "I thought at one time that this might be the end of the line for the tractor train." But the tractors made it, and Hillary would have been all right, of course, if they had not. He was carrying emergency gear and supplies for foot travel to the U.S. base...