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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dull and Resigned. The almost-forgotten men of the war-the U.N. prisoners still in Communist hands-were expected to start coming back through the Panmunjom exchange site within a week. The latest prisoner list tendered by the Reds showed 3,313 Americans, 8,186 South Koreans, 922 British Commonwealth, 342 others. Enemy prisoners who had opted for repatriation were to be brought north at the rate of more than...
...find the burial site, Mylonas followed the directions of Pausanias, the Greek geographer and traveler, who wrote a kind of Greek Baedeker in the 2nd century A.D. In describing the countryside near Athens, Pausanias tells about the heroes' graves. Since many of his descriptions have proved accurate as clues for archaeologists in the past, Mylonas was convinced that if he dug long enough at Eleusis. he would find the graves just where Pausanias put them when he wrote his ancient guidebook...
...Richard Arthur Grosvenor, 74, second Duke of Westminster and one of the world's richest landlords; of coronary thrombosis; in Loch More, Scotland. Reportedly worth $168 million in inherited real estate (e.g.. 200,000 acres of farmland, 600 acres of London's West End. including the site of the U.S. embassy), the fun-loving duke was a World War I hero, a collector of great art (e.g., Gainsborough's The Blue Boy), and a ladies' man (four marriages, three divorces). To celebrate his third marriage (to Socialite Loelia Ponsonby) in 1930, he granted his poorer...
...million River Park center, planned for a 90-acre site just off the Schuylkill Expressway near Philadelphia's city line. When it is completed, it will have a hotel, three 770-unit apartment buildings and an office building, each twelve stories high, 70 shops, and parking for 6,000 cars...
Technically not an epidemic site, Alabama's Montgomery County (pop. 139,000) was the first to gain recognition from federal officials as an emergency area entitled to use gamma globulin for mass inoculations. As the county's list of polio victims neared 80, the Office of Defense Mobilization allotted it 250,000 cc (67 gallons), enough to provide shots for more than 30,000 youngsters under ten. Montgomery's doctors and nurses, medical personnel from two Air Force fields, and housewives recruited by the Parent-Teacher Association, set up 18 inoculation stations in schools. From morning...