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...meant to be: ". . . Apartments for young married vets who have been crowding their in-laws since V-J Day. Average rentals less than $50 a month . . . You don't have to know Joe to get a unit. There are no shenanigans, if you want one ... Priorities: 1) Ex-POW's; 2) Purple Heart Vets; 3) Overseas Vets; 4) Vets; 5) Civilians...
...months, Bogota (pop. 450,000) had been sprucing up, and by this week it was as ready as it ever would be for the opening next Tuesday of the Ninth Conference of American States, the first full-dress Pan American pow-wow in ten years...
...previous months noticed the difference right away--where there had been naught there was plenty: in attendees at classes, extra-curricular activitiers, Widener users. And what was more, the influx--unless, as TIME claimed, it was the co-ordination with spring that did it--put life and love and pow! into all and sundry...
Later, when a cowpoke quaffed a "prairie pickup" ("straight formaldehyde with a black widder spider ridin' the olive"), his crepe whiskers fell off. Ad-libbed Actor Welles: "Mighty pow'ful stuff, that likker. Burns the whiskers right off'n a man's face...
Died. Ebert K. Burlew, 59, longtime administrative assistant to terrible-tempered Harold L. Ickes and backstage pow er in the Secretary of the Interior's office; of coronary thrombosis; in Miami...