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Asian flu by last week had attacked an estimated 400,000 people in the U.S. Though manufacturers were pouring out vaccine far faster than expected (3,700,000 doses last week), there was a serious snarl over who was to get the inoculations and when. With only voluntary priorities suggested by Washington, most of the vaccine (which often caused a slight feverish reaction) so far seemed to have been sold to anyone who went after it early and energetically enough, notably football teams and business concerns...
...Monday, she meditated, and she had two hampers of dirty clothes to cope with. After her husband left for the 8:34, she put on Music for Washing and Ironing, and the suave purring of the Somerset Strings, boosted real high, drowned out the snarl of the washer. When it was time for a midday snack, she returned to the built-in record cabinet and selected Music for Gracious Living and Music for Expectant Mothers (her second child was on the way). Late in the afternoon it clouded over, and she barely had time to slip on Music...
...soft June afternoon burst to a deep, mechanical snarl, and the gently rolling countryside south of Le Mans, France came alive as 54 low-slung sports cars whirled into the start of "les vingt-quatre heures," auto racing's classic Grand Prix of Endurance. Once more the famous 24-hour race promised spectacular trouble. Last year's exercise in safety had been a dull performance as refueling rules held everyone down to reasonable speeds; there had been only one fatality. Last week the promoters decided to gamble again. Almost as if they had forgotten 1955's monstrous...
...cafe outside the Gregg County seat of Longview in East Texas, a handful of teen-age Negroes drank soda pop, danced to the music of a beat-up jukebox, chattered happily just because it was Saturday night. Suddenly the cheerful inside noises were smeared by the snarl of a car outside, a sputtering of shots ("like a string of firecrackers," said one witness) and a scream...
...dingy College St.Joseph at Poitiers (pop. 52,633) last week rattled a dusty blue Renault bus. Three singers, a dancer, a pianist, an announcer and the driver got out, unloaded a few pieces of battered scenery and a stork's-nest snarl of electronic equipment. Inside the college's assembly hall the announcer (who doubles as electrician) checked the lights while the performers dotted scenery around the bare stage. Within an hour the seven-member pocket opera company was proving again what it had already shown in 148 other stops of its tour through the French provinces...