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...normal day, Mohammed V rises at 6, dresses himself in slacks and sports jacket, climbs into one of his sports cars, and drives into Rabat to look around. He is a confirmed sidewalk superintendent, often stops to watch workmen putting up a new building. Audiences take up most of the rest of the morning. In the afternoon, the Sultan confers with Premier Si M'Barek ben Mustapha el Bekkai, a onetime lieutenant colonel in the French cavalry who lost a leg in the Ardennes. After dinner, the Sultan usually works until midnight, often dealing with the affairs...
Thousands of Americans over 40 who conscientiously have regular medical checkups are getting a clean bill of health when actually they are suffering from an insidious disease that may cause blindness. So said a Memphis ophthalmologist last week at a sight-saving conference* in Manhattan. The often overlooked disease: glaucoma. Reported the University of Tennessee's Dr. Margaret Horsley, after a five-month 'study just completed at the John Gaston Hospital's clinics: 44 cases of glaucoma were found among patients who did not suspect that they had anything wrong with their eyes...
Taken in hand early, glaucoma can be effectively controlled in most cases. For the majority of patients, specially prescribed eye drops will lower the pressure to normal. In certain cases, where drugs do not reduce the tension sufficiently, surgery is often useful. Of victims who did not get treatment in time, 40,000 are now blind and 150,000 partially blind; estimates of U.S. glaucoma victims runs as high as a million, with half of them unaware that they have...
...Newspaper coverage has not kept pace with the upsurge of public interest in the arts, wrote Theodore H. Parker, longtime critic of all arts for the Hartford Courant (circ. 99,812). "Theater, music, fine arts, dance reviewers are still too often the products of chance. True, not all newspapers need a full-time critic in one or all these fields. But the choice of even a part-time critic, or occasional reviewer, does not always get the care that would be taken in assigning a man to other specialized beats...
...School Scholarship Plan will partially alleviate this situation by providing better financial computation of applicants' family financial situations. The richer schools will still continue to award more than the colleges because: their students often cannot obtain summer jobs, as much term-time work, or take loans...