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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unemployables" are eligible for public assistance. The chronically depressed coal mines have cut their payrolls from 125,000 men to 50,000 in little more than a decade. The welfare statism of the New Deal still carries a lot of magic in the mountain glens. Yet the voters also retain a back-country suspicion of foreign entanglements, and Kennedy and Humphrey, both liberals and internationalists, must walk a fine line as they campaign there...
...states have abolished capital punishment entirely: Wisconsin (1853), Maine (1887), Minnesota (1911), Alaska (pre-statehood), Hawaii (pre-statehood), Delaware (1958). Three others, Michigan, Rhode Island and North Dakota, are usually counted as abolition states, because they retain the death penalty only for one or two rare offenses (treason, murder in prison by a convicted murderer) and never invoke it. Eight other states abolished capital punishment at one time or another but later restored it. Missouri, for example, abolished the death penalty in 1917, reinstated it in 1919 after hoodlums killed two policemen in a gun fight...
Aspirin & Sophistication. In the U.S., such old favorites as Hill's Cascara Quinine (Whitehall Pharmacal Co.) and Bromo Quinine (Grove Laboratories, Inc.) retain a faithful but shrinking following. They have been crowded to the side of druggists' counters by supposedly more sophisticated products of the antibiotic, antihistamine age. A current favorite is Coricidin (Schering Corp.), combining APC with a small enough dose of the antihistamine Chlor-Trimeton to be sold without prescription. If the customer does not know what he wants, many druggists recommend this. Competitive runners-up: Dristan (Whitehall) and Super-Anahist (Anahist Research Laboratories). Ascorbic acid...
Mermaids & Omens. Cape Dorset is one of the oldest settlements in North America: Eskimos were living there nearly 3,000 years ago. Still untouched by mining, large-scale commerce and defense installations, the Cape Dorset people retain a fierce pride in themselves as Eskimos, have kept their art uncontaminated by the white man's sophistication...
...Crimson must end that streak Saturday to retain any hope of winning the Ivy title, and the accompanying invitation to the NCAA Eastern playoffs in March. In fact, unless the sextet sweeps both ends of the home-and-home weekend series which concludes at Watson Rink Feb. 13, it will need help from another team to merely tie the Big Green. Such is the plight of Harvard hockey...