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Died. Ernst Legal, 74, veteran German actor, theater manager and director, post-World War II manager of the State Opera in East Berlin; in Berlin. Invited by East Berlin's Communist regime to manage the State Opera, Legal rebuilt it into one of Europe's important cultural showcases, resigned in 1952 in protest against the firing of 250 opera employees living in West Berlin...
...Wilbur Shaw made the grade: he got a car to drive on the big brick oval at Indianapolis. It was a rebuilt Miller, 10 to 12 m.p.h. slower than most other cars in the race, and it was something of a jinx. In it, famed Jimmy Murphy, winner of the Indianapolis in 1922, had driven to his death at Syracuse, N.Y., three years before. To Wilbur Shaw the old Miller was just another car, and the cocky, mustachioed little hell-raiser drove it home in fourth place...
Though it lost more dwellings in the war than did Britain (7.6% v. 6.5%). it has rebuilt only 500,000 homes v. Britain's 2,000,000. Despite record sales abroad, the foreign-trade deficit was $49,500,000 in March-partly because France stubbornly concentrates on exporting such low-profit items as textiles and semifinished steels. Industry, hit by high wage costs and elaborate fringe benefits imposed by strong unions and by government fiat (to avoid strikes), has tried to recoup by price-fixing and cartel schemes rather than modernization and better production methods. Nevertheless, U.S. Ambassador Douglas...
...nation had only one hospital that was less than 80 years old. Most hospitals were forbidding-looking piles, built as poorhouses and stand-by barracks in the prime ministry of Sir Robert Peel (who also helped make other medical history-see below). Now the Irish have built or completely rebuilt 82 hospitals, extended or overhauled 95 others, and have a total of 253 with 40,000 beds-near the top of the European scale. With the help of the new hospitals (plus new drugs), deaths from tuberculosis have dropped from...
Since bait advertisers calculate that one housewife in three will buy the high-priced model, the pattern is repeated daily in thousands of U.S. homes. In Seattle, vacuum cleaners are popular bait. Radio station KOL advertised a rebuilt vacuum cleaner for $8.95, but a demonstration showed that it lacked the suction to extinguish a match, and the salesman switched to a $120 cleaner...