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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reaction to the whole controversy--and apparently some Yalies are none too happy about the change--was simply that you can't make a silk purse out of a bulldog's ear. It will not possibly do to have Yalies parading around in coats and ties when they would prefer to wear a tee shirt and sweat pants, or perhaps a swimming suit. While we have no particular objection to giving top hats to Zulus, we see no necessity...
...doughboys of World War I, the library now has some 100,000 books, is largely supported by a paying membership of 3,000 (60% Frenchmen). The library managed to stay open during the German occupation of World War II, is now so efficient that many French graduate students prefer its accessible shelves to the musty stacks of Paris libraries. It recently provided the material for a doctoral thesis on Playwright Tennessee Williams...
...French were often cryptic in translation (by his 34-year-old son), his delivery was spirited, his hands always expressive. "Was he aiding the Algerians?" "Yes," said Bourguiba, his steely eyes flashing, "I help them . . . They are proving that they mean what they say when they say they prefer to be exterminated rather than live under the old regime...
Because surgery to remove venom sacs is so difficult, commercial producers of immunizing extracts prefer to grind up the whole insects and make them into an injectable preparation. (In this method, one school argues, there may be a danger of sensitizing a subject to allergy-causing proteins from other parts of the insect's body.) At the Hollister-Stier Laboratories in Spokane, Bacteriologist Edward L. Foubert Jr. has concluded that only a few species of Hymenoptera are important stingers in any one area, and that since most victims do not know just which varieties have stung them...
Rural Development is one of the few farm programs that really work. Yet it gets a cold reception from politicians because it is prompted by an unpleasant fact that they prefer to ignore. The fact: too many farmers are trying to scratch out a living on farms that are too small to be profitable. From 1930 to 1954, the average U.S. farm jumped from 157 to 242 acres. But with the cost of mechanization, even that is not enough to support a single family in many areas. And in hundreds of scrubby farming counties, the cultivated area per farm averages...