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Spat Upon. Long before the Civil War, Phenix City became famed as a vice town, populated mostly by crooked gamblers and diseased whores. Gunfire was all too common. In later years, slot machines lined the walls of barbershops and service stations, even sprouted on the sidewalks. Servicemen from nearby Fort Benning kept the brothels operating full tilt. Such was Phenix City's infamy that members of its high school football team were spat upon when they played out of town...
...while, Mrs. Roosevelt remained vividly alive. She learned to lower her voice. Her glowing eyes and eager smile inspired warmth. Her travels averaged 40,000 miles in each of her first eight years in the White House. When war broke out, she carried greetings from the President to U.S. servicemen from London to the South Pacific, returned with personal messages for their families. In one South Pacific hospital she horrified her escorts by bursting into a particular ward to handshake and kiss the patients. The trouble was that the ward was set aside for those with venereal diseases...
Rhode Island lays claim to the closest race in the country, where incumbent Gov. John A. Notte, Jr. leads Republican John H. Chafee by a miniscule 46 votes. A State police guard was hurriedly thrown around the absentee, shut-in, and servicemen's ballots which will not be counted until after a Nov. 21 filing deadline...
...Operation Overlord. In the course of the next year he bought up five scriptwriters, five directors, 37 military advisers and 42-no, it's not a misprint-42 stars.* Then, to the horror of economy-minded Congressmen, Zanuck somehow managed, in effect, to rent several thousand U.S. servicemen and 22 ships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet-all for next to nothing. On top of that, he hit the British for 1,000 paratroopers and the French for 2,000 regulars-at the height of the crisis in Algeria. When Zanuck needed a train to blow...
...experiment at Middletown High School, near Newport, R.I., is just beginning its second year. Anywhere else. Middletown's 1,271 youngsters, mostly children of employees and servicemen of the nearby naval base, would be labeled seventh-to twelfth-graders. But Middletown has banished grades as well as failure and promotion. Instead, subjects are broken into small-step "concepts'' to be mastered over a six-year period. A student may plod in math while simultaneously flying ahead in English. For dullards, it may take seven years to get a diploma. Whippets can finish in five years. Sidney...