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...last week even in the middle of his resignation speech to correct a misspelling in his notes, has occupied himself with tempering Ben-Gurion's most headstrong policies. It was Sharett who successfully fought "B.-G.'s" plan to attack Gaza after the Arab murder of praying schoolchildren in Shafrir (TiME, April...
...London since Georgy Malenkov's enthusiastic welcome only three weeks before. The pinpricks (or possibly worse) from disgruntled exiles and refugees (there are a quarter of a million Iron Curtain exiles in Britain) had been expected and discounted. But where were the lipstick-heavy shopgirls and the schoolchildren eager to be bemused by the roly-poly Russians? The subtle, artful labors of Foreign Office schedulemakers, hoping to keep B. & K. from public contact, had proved an unnecessary precaution...
Cost of installation: $2,500 per hospital. ¶ In Bordeaux, France, a district court set a legal precedent for all France, ordered the government to pay damages to parents of eight local schoolchildren who developed abscesses in 1949 as a result of compulsory vaccination against TB. ¶ Manhattan Obstetrician Alan F. Guttmacher reported that multiple births (twins or better) occur far more frequently among Negroes than whites, run highest among women 35 to 39 years old. The incidence of quadruplets among whites is once in 570,196 births, among Negroes once in 237,897. For triplets, the current ratio...
...from viewers pour in at a rate of 1,500 a week. "The kids' requests show the effect of comic books," says Baker sadly. "They're always wanting horrible things like two trains crashing into each other at 90 miles an hour." An entire grade of Minneapolis schoolchildren wrote in asking to see Joan of Arc burned at the stake. There was only one dissenter in the class: he wanted to see a ship blow up in midocean...
...performance last week an inflated nine-foot lobster and a cardboard octopus of grand design decorated the stage of Cincinnati's Music Hall as schoolchildren and proud parents filed in to hear the Cincinnati Symphony do Sea Secrets, a Cantata for Speakers, Chorus and Orchestra...