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...track. Still, barter troubles continued. Now the Lebanese asked that surplus U.S. wheat and other foodstuffs be thrown into the deal along with the new jets. To help pay for the costly planes, the Lebanese proposed to raise cash by selling off the wheat and foodstuffs. If that sounded roundabout, it was-but it is the way business is apt to be done with the Middle East...
Despite overoptimistic claims, the new vaccine has no immediate bearing on the common cold, which is caused by a multitude of viruses that are only distantly, if at all, related to adenovirus 4. What is hopeful, for possible vaccines against many other virus diseases, is the ingenious technique of roundabout vaccination...
Three Fairs in One. Smith confesses to have been stage-struck ever since he saw Carmen at age ten in Buffalo, but he took a roundabout route to Broadway. He studied architecture at Penn State, did a stint as a Roxy usher ("The stage design was hideous"), tried selling mackinaws in Gimbels' basement. He was also a member of the ménage in the Brooklyn Heights town house shared by W. H. Auden, Benjamin Britten, Carson McCullers and Richard Wright. Smith was the dishwasher and furnace man. He also thought he was a painter. His first show...
Moved to Fight. In some villages, the entire Catholic population will pull up stakes, while their Buddhist neighbors stay behind. But Red roadblocks make getting out difficult for the refugees. Families often have to break up in order to slip away individually, usually by roundabout paths or jungle streams. In Quinhon. where the refugees are arriving at the rate of 300 a day, the homeless receive food from Catholic chari ties and medical care from American Franciscan sisters-though disease is inevitable in the fetid shantytowns...
Americans won eight gold medals and Geoff Picard '65 completed his roundabout journey to the Olympic victory stand in Tokyo yesterday...