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...highway for the next fiscal year; now he wants $75 million for the next three years. Matched by half that sum from Central American countries, the stepped-up appropriation would be enough, Ike thought, to close the gaps in the road (notably a 134-mile stretch in southeastern Costa Rica-TIME, March 14) and pave the dirt and gravel sections...
...back to the key question of Quemoy and Matsu. "They are important to Red China only as a jumping-off place for an attack on Formosa," Low said. "The U.S. should be given moral support . . . because of the importance of Formosa for the defense of the free people of southeastern Asia and even of America." As the other M.P.s spoke, Mike Pearson alternately twirled his horn-rimmed glasses and sprawled in his seat with hands in his pockets. He made no immediate reply to his critics. For the time being, at least, he evidently intended to stand by his rule...
FREE RICE for school lunches will be distributed by the Government because of increasing surpluses. As a starter the Government has already sent 139 carloads to nine southeastern states for distribution to schools and institutions...
...Gray collection, has more than 1,350,000 plant specimens from all over the world. It includes the New England Botany Club collection of all New England Botany Club collection of all New England plants. Most of the non-horticultural specimens brought in from the Arnold Arboretum are from Southeastern Asia. The Orchid collection of Oakes Ames, and fossil plant collection of the Botannical Museum are also now housed in the Herbarium...
...Tuesday morning, the wind was headed toward the north, carrying Carol at 35 to 40 m.p.h. toward Long Island. Warnings went out at once, but most people along the endangered coast had gone to bed unworried, confident that Carol would pass them by. Instead, she churned destructively across southeastern New England, destroying, among many other things, the steeple of Boston's famous old North Church...