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Scheele based his plea on heartening statistics. In studies covering 8,500,000 children in 22 states and New York City last year, the overall attack rate among vaccinated children, most of whom had but a single injection, showed only 6.3 polio cases per 100,000. Among the unvaccinated, the attack rate was almost five times as high: 29.2 cases...
President Eisenhower to veto the natural-gas bill (TIME, Feb. 20). On the plea that South Dakota needs: 1) a farmer in the Senate, and 2) a return to high supports. Groton Farmer Ken Holum, 40, got the Democratic nomination over Mitchell Municipal Judge Merton Tice, 46, by an almost two-to-one vote. Republicans predicted (probably correctly) that Francis Case would be the winner...
When '31 left to face the Depression on more serious terms, President Lowell sent the Class off with a plea for wisdom and a sense of personal responsibility. But it was a Baccalaureate sermon, and 1931 was probably more intent on other things.BEN TICKNOR '31, varsity football captain and All-American center...
...thousand police guarded the road from the airport against possible violence. This time the threatened violence was not from labor unionists, but from demonstrators who opposed the Nehru government's plan to make Bombay a centrally administered area. Sitting before a statue of Gandhi, Nehru made an impassioned plea: "When your enemy tries to wound you, you get hurt, but the wound heals in course of time. But when your brother inflicts injuries on you, the wound takes a long time to heal. Dead bodies do not worry me so much as dead souls and dead hearts. Death...
...Ready Yet. Nehru's plea fell on deaf ears. Even as he spoke, thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of Bom bay, shouting "Bombay is ours," and brandishing flags and umbrellas. Through the city they surged, shattering street lights, tearing up railroad tracks, erecting barricades, stoning cars containing members of Nehru's Congress Party. Police lobbed tear-gas shells into the rioting mobs, then fired into them pointblank. Tough Sikh reinforcements were called out, and nearly 2,000 people were arrested. Bitterly, Pandit Nehru said that Bombay is "not ready for self-rule" and will...