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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About 40 Radcliffe students are doing "exceptionally well" as volunteers at the Radcliffe health center, according to Miss Morgan, one of the regular nurses. The health center has only one nurse on duty most of the time, and about six girls help her each day. They help in taking temperatures, administering medicine, and doing many other chores...
...could get the Federal Census Bureau to count the city's population; certainly with growth everywhere New York was bound to show an increase-and each new nose would entitle the city to an additional $6.75 in state aid in the interval before the regular 1960 census count. The contracts were signed, the counters went to work, and Wagner saw to it that the census takers even counted in the crew of an aircraft carrier and the cast of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus...
...sure thing gurgled down the drain. New York's population is now 7,795,471, down 96,486 in seven years. Mayor Wagner refused to accept the figures. Then the state attorney general eased the pain by ruling that state aid would not be reduced unless the next regular count confirmed the decline. Net result of the gamble: a $1,500,000 loss to the municipal pocketbook and a stiff blow to municipal pride...
...regular maypole frolic in Peking when Stephen Tyler and 14 other U.S. innocents abroad-part of the 45 students who thumbed their passports at the State Department and AWOLed off to Red China last summer-got together with that jolly old minstrel, Premier Chou Enlai, for a clap-hands songfest. But as the Trans-Siberian Express chugged back to Moscow last week, the party line began to fray. Complained self-described "Rightist" Tyler at the U.S. embassy: because he had tried to dampen their enthusiasm for Red China, two of his fellow travelers-for-the-truth had bopped...
Buttons & Fins. In the small-car field, American will bolster its successful line of British-made Metropolitans (sales through August: 8,354, up 78% from last year) by reviving the economy-sized (100-in. wheelbase) Rambler that was dropped in 1955. American will also face lift its regular 108-in. Rambler, give it canted tailfins, a flat roofline, pushbutton transmission and a slight horsepower boost to 215 h.p. in the V-8 model. In the low-medium price bracket. American will produce a third, 117-in. -wheelbase Rambler Ambassador to replace its defunct Nash and Hudson, will give it racier...