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...Wesley Chapel School, perched on a hill overlooking miles of slash pine east of Atlanta. Teacher Corinne Clark called the 47 moppets in second grade to order one morning last week. The stack of impressive-looking envelopes at her side, she explained, had been "sent out by the doctors to try to prevent you from having polio." She wanted the children to take the envelopes home to their parents and get their permission to be vaccinated. The youngsters took it all in quietly, asked not a single question...
Senator Leverett Saltonstall '14 (R-Mass.) announced yesterday that he will support a move to restore a $6' million appropriations slash--made by the House--to the international student exchange program...
...will "vigorously oppose" a drive, led by Georgia's Democratic Senator Walter George, to raise exemptions from the present $600 to $800 this year and to $1,000 in 1955. House Republicans, seeking a more politically palatable way to head off the Democrats, are pressing a plan to slash excise taxes on such items as furs, jewelry, cosmetics, theater admissions, transportation and communications−most of them by 50%. Humphrey said this week that he was against so broad a reduction, but would approve more "selective" cuts in excise rates...
...that once were considered worthless. Around Jacksonville, two companies are mining ilmenite and rutile, from which the wonder metal titanium is produced. To the south, near Fort Myers, an oilfield is producing commercially. Oil was also found last month in a new area not far away. To the north, slash pine is feeding the paper and chemical industries. In the Everglades, Newport Industries and other companies are turning out tough ramie fiber, a promising substitute for Indian jute...
...Army faces a slash of 21,538 officers under the present budget. To keep the number of force-outs to a minimum, the Army considered the 90-day plan. If the Appropriations Committee allows the Defense Department to modify the budget, ROTC graduates will be carried as "extra numbers...