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...other physical signs of Western influence. The village of Mamazan, for instance shows the beginnings of what could be the Iran of tomorrow. Its peasants, though almost as poor as their fellows, look clean and confident. Their houses are spick & span. Farm animals are kept outside. A deep well pump with simple brick filters assures clean drinking water-a rarity. (Even in Teheran, the drinking water runs through filthy gutters.) In Mamazan, Hobbing saw peasants doing voluntary work on a new community project, a bathhouse. He asked them if they minded the extra labor. They pushed back their round caps...
...Chicago busesas in otherspropane gas, liquefied under pressure, is carried in thick-skinned steel tanks. The gas moves through seamless copper tubing, in liquid form under its own pressure (eliminating the need for a fuel pump), and is converted into a gas as it enters the carburetor. Chief advantages: the gas sells for one-half the price of gasoline, burns completely, leaving no carbon, is odorless, and runs the motor more smoothly and quietly, requiring fewer changes of oil and less maintenance. Insurance companies consider propane engines as safe as diesel or gasoline...
...major leagues elected Happy Chandler commissioner of baseball 5½ years ago when the game thought it needed friends in Washington to survive the manpower drafts of World War II. Albert Benjamin Chandler, junior Senator from Kentucky, had more than a toothpaste smile and a pump-handle handshake; he had good connections. Last week, with manpower drafts threatening baseball once again, the club owners could still use friends in Washington, but they had had enough of Happy Chandler...
Cambridge firemen answered the automatic alarm by sending 15 firemen, the 78-foot hook and ladder truck, one pump truck, and two emergency cars. The firehouse is located 100 yards across the street from Thayer...
...first thing CODAM did want to pump all its connections in Washington for information about what form a national draft program might take. The chief link in the passing of data was John S. Nicholas, master of Trumbull College, and a member of Major General Lewis B. Hershey's Selective Service Board...