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...Department of Agriculture has many vexing problems. Last week it had a stopper: a chinchilla with "the slobbers." Its front teeth had grown so long that it could not eat. Agriculture experts did what they could, but the sick chinchilla had slobbered too long; it died of malnutrition...
...Another stopper: Said a one-armed man, after a long catechism, ''I'll answer one more question and that's all." The question: "How did you lose your arm?" His answer: "It was bitten...
Fanciers of Wedgwood and Spode (or cheap imitations) stared coldly at the clean, uninhibited lines, the unadorned and self-sufficient surfaces of modern dinnerware by such topnotch U.S. designers as Eva Zeisel (Castleton China) and show-stopper Florence Forst. But to many Everyday Gallery visitors, one of the show's designers was an old table and dishpan friend: Russel Wright, who has thrown pottery makers-always a conservative lot-into a dither with the massive success of his American Modern dinnerware since...
Wanted: Beds. When Washington asked a put-up-or-shut-up question (''What is Alaska doing about it?"), Albrecht had a stopper: none-too-wealthy Alaska had voted $250,000, about one-tenth of its annual budget, for an anti-T.B. campaign; its able Governor, Dr. Ernest Gruening (pronounced greening) had declared a state of emergency. Now would Congress meet the request of the Office of Indian Affairs for $2,775,000 to start building a 200-bed sanatorium...
...union's Richard Leonard, to the surprise of almost everybody, answered Ford's demand for security against wildcat strikes (TIME, Nov. 26) with a counterproposal: any union work-stopper would be fined $3 a day ($5 for a second offense), provided similar penalties were imposed on company chieftains who deliberately provoked a stoppage...