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Bread & Cheese. But the fly is only part of the trouble. The foundation found that twelve village families out of every 100 live only on unleavened bread, skim milk and cheese. Fifty-six percent manage to get fresh vegetables once a week. At one village, there is a single doctor who had to treat 27,000 new patients plus 1,100 pregnant women and 5,500 children -a clientele that gave him time only to ask for symptoms and guess at a remedy...
Johnny breaks down, but Gerard refuses to turn back. They hit a dirt track pitted with deep holes which must be taken in first gear. Then comes a stretch of washboard to be crossed at 50 m.p.h. so that the truck will skim over the crests of the ridges. One of his shock-absorbers, Gerard discovers, has been sabotaged by another man who hoped to get the assignment. Farther on, Gerard and Johnny barely miss a collision with a truck carrying the other half of the nitro. In one village, both trucks are misled to a side road...
Yale officials are proud of their saucer-bowl and they make sure it is well protected. A week before every Harvard-Yale game large details of policemen are assigned to patrol inside and outside the Bowl. Powerful floodlights skim the field to watch for pranksters...
...smoky Manhattan bop-house called Birdland, a crowd of jazz fans gathered to hear a leisurely instrumental sextet skim through a performance that was neither Dixieland, swing, nor bebop. Not even a confirmed boppist could find a melodic phrase to sing "Ooble-dee-ah-de-coo" with, as the practice is nowadays; there was not even so much as a "Man, that's cool!"* Passionate disciples of blind Pianist-Composer-Theorist Lennie Tristano, 32, are much too conservative for such crudities...
...time Sunday rolls in, the varsity baseball team should have parlayed a three-and-four record into four and-five for the season. Stuffy McInnis' nine meets the cream of the league, Princeton, at Soliders Field at 3:45 p.m. today, and the skim milk at Hanover tomorrow afternoon...