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Each operation lasted two hours or more, and each time Rodney stood it well. This week, he was again taking cereal by spoon, holding his own bottle, and playing pat-a-cake. One-fourth of his brain still had only its natural covering of parchment-like dura mater. That would mean another operation soon. And eventually he would have to have a hard top (bone, metal or plastic) for his skull. But the University of Illinois doctors were already so encouraged by Rodney's progress that they had let his special nurses...
...same, London considers itself the largest university in the Commonwealth, larger than Oxford and Cambridge combined. When the autumn term began, its enrollment included one-fourth (18,-283) of all England's full-time university students. And the University of London is still expanding to absorb more of Britain's new generation of students. In Bloomsbury, the last daubs of paint are being slapped on Birkbeck College (for evening classes), and nearby the steel girders for a new student union are already in place. "We have it in our power," says Principal Douglas W. Logan, "to create...
Defense Experience: In World War II, Wilson converted his industrial giant (Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, Frigidaire, diesel engines, AC Spark Plug, Hyatt Bearings and 23 other divisions) to war production. G.M. made nearly one-fourth of all the tanks, armored cars and airplane engines produced in the U.S. during World War II, almost half of all the machine guns and carbines, two-thirds of all the large trucks. At war's end, Wilson reconverted G.M. to peacetime production at top speed and partially converted to defense production when the Korean war broke out. Today, Wilson...
...More than one-fourth of British girls are fully mature and ready for childbearing at 15, Dr. Marie (Married Love) Stopes told a royal commission. "Marriage should be possible for them [though] I should not encourage it." Her recommendation : drop the minimum marriage age for girls from...
...Curb Exchange, which got its name and first fame as an open-air securities market, last week seemed due for a change. The Curb's governing board decided the old name was "no longer indicative" of the Curb's prestige, since it now handles one-fourth the volume of the Stock Exchange and is the biggest U.S. market for foreign securities. Effective Jan. 5, if members agree, the Curb will become the American Stock Exchange...