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Four weeks ago, Anthony Eden's Tories got the shock of their lives in the Kent countryside of Tonbridge. Presumably no district in all England could be rated safer for the Tories; in last year's general election, it went Tory by 10,196 votes. Yet, in a by-election at Tonbridge in June, the Tory candidate squeaked through by only 1,602 votes...
...hours of waterskiing on Schroon Lake, N.Y. He was dog-tired, but before he settled down he asked one of the two girls in the boat, Allene Beck, if she could swim; when she shook her head, he traded places with her so she would be in a safer spot. Minutes later the speeding boat bounced on a wave, and both of them, the 50-year-old man and the girl, shot into the water. He swam to her and held her head above water until the boat could circle back and she was hauled aboard. But as hands reached...
...education might worry about the perilous state of high-school Latin, physics and mathematics, Teachers College, Columbia University, was all aglow over another trend. Driver education, reported T.C. happily, is now "the fastest-growing program in the country." Today four out of ten high schools teach it, making students "safer members of traffic society...
...Council might have been on safer grounds, he said, if it had recommended that the vacation come from non-school days, such as shortened Christmas or Spring breaks...
...natural declines in the U.S. during 1955, doctors credited the Salk vaccine with causing a 25% drop in the number of polio cases among the 7,000,000 children who were vaccinated. It had this success despite distribution snafus and faulty vaccine batches. In 1956 the vaccine will be safer and, doctors hope, at least 80% effective in preventing paralytic polio. How will it reach the children...