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Frail, flame-haired Fabio Signorini, 10, was the smartest boy in his class-and the only one unable to bring a postcard to school for the geography project. With tears of shame in his eyes, Fabio explained matters to his teacher. Neither his mother nor his grandparents can read or write. His father was captured by the Russians on the Don nine years before, and, like 60,000 other Italian soldiers, has not been heard of since. None of the other ten relatives who share the poverty-ridden farmhouse in Sant' Alessandro had ever sent or received a postcard...
Prescription. In Oakland, Calif., after receiving a postcard from her husband reading, "Are you upset? Are you nervous? Do you smoke too much? Try a California divorce for quick sedative action," Dr. Mary E. Horan...
...more than 50 years in picture-postcard North Dighton, Mass. (pop. 1,500), Mount Hope Finishing Co. has been the town's only employer. Its 17½-acre, ivy-covered plant, largest textile-finishing mill under one roof in the world, is ringed with a park and the pleasant, trim houses of its 800 workers. Under 76-year-old President Joseph K. Milliken, Mount Hope never had a union, but paid its workers the going wages for the industry. It practiced the kind of old-style, New England paternalism that made "J.K." a popular boss. If sickness struck...
...Ballot. With a few exceptions,-all registered British subjects of 21 and over may vote. Britons do not use voting machines. A voter checks his name in a voting register, marks his vote with an X on a postcard-size ballot on which the, names-but not the parties -of the Parliamentary candidates in his constituency are printed. He has but one vote to cast; the problem of voting a straight ticket does not arise...
...penny postcard goes [TIME, Sept. 17], why not simply abolish the penny itself? This would undoubtedly save the Government quite a bit of money . . . BERYL IVY MAYO Jackson, Miss...