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Pediatrician Herbert Click decided last February that the best thing to do with Joan was have her catch the measles. He took her to visit a measly six-year-old, and the children played together for an hour. But stubborn nature refused to take its course, and Joan missed the measles. In March, under careful medical supervision Joan was exposed to a second measles case. Once again, nothing happened...
...work on an 18-by-17-ft. mural for Harvard University's new graduate center. The mural, he says hopefully, "will enable me to establish close contact with the students, the young men of tomorrow. It is better to influence the young generation than to try to convert stubborn...
...lavish caviar & champagne banquet, attended by all the top Soviet brass, Moscow last week honored visiting Finnish Premier Urho Kekkonen. The Premier had earned his fine meal. He had just signed a five-year trade treaty that is designed to shackle stubborn little Finland's economy to Russia for good. Under the new treaty, nearly all of Finland's foreign trade will be geared to Russia: machinery, ships, lumber products and prefabricated houses in return for Soviet grain, fertilizers, raw materials and oil. Finnish sales to Russia will increase each year, making Finland ever more dependent on Soviet...
Greens & Beans. The land companies, owners of mammoth tracts of western acreage, started it all. New Englanders knew that their own land was stubborn and poor-and the ads spread the word (truly) of rich soil and (falsely) of good roads and easy fortunes. After the Revolutionary War, thousands of Yankees poured into New York and Pennsylvania. In a few years, the trek to Ohio was on. Stay-at-home Yankees ridiculed the exodus; Ohio Indians tried using tomahawks to stop it. But the wagons rolled on, and mushrooming towns grew to look a lot like old New England towns...
...forerunners of Alcoholics Anonymous indulged in "a season of songs, prayers and expressions of neighborly interest" at the drunkard's bedside. This was guaranteed to cure all but the most stubborn cases. But one drunkard's wife sewed him up in a sheet, tied him to a bedpost, and called in the neighbors to look at him. Added Blanton: "He never touched liquor again. This was because he was so humiliated that he went out and hanged himself...