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...Memphis, after being ordered by his teacher to swallow what he was chewing, Rangel Burks, 7, obliged, was taken to the hospital with a pencil stub in his stomach...
When Neelands resigned in disgust from Capital's board in 1958, he warned that the line had "sought more routes than it could swallow and was working toward a crisis." Now, faced with a $33.8 million mortgage foreclosure on planes and a full-scale CAB investigation, Capital President David H. Baker and his backers on Capital's board have called on Neelands to solve the line's woes...
...disclosed that Lederle has already applied to the P.H.S.'s Division of Biologies Standards for a license to make generally available his one-swallow vaccine, now under extensive trial in Miami (TIME, Feb. 29) and Minnesota. Even this brought a demurral. Said Biologies Standards' Dr. Roderick Murray: "No company has yet filed a complete application with all the required data." What he meant was that the Government, once burned when hasty licensing of Salk vaccine producers was followed by the disastrous Cutter incident (TIME, May 9 1955 et seq.}, is now twice shy about licensing an oral...
Great Asset. "Herter's taking over from Foster Dulles was a hard pill for the President to swallow," said a White House intimate. "It would have been a hard pill for the President for anyone to follow Foster, because there was a very close relationship there." Moreover, Herter's first year began somewhat awkwardly. Informed by Ike that he had been chosen to succeed Dulles, Herter quickly had the head-to-toe physical examination requested by the President, was embarrassed when the appointment was delayed while the results (satisfactory) were flown to vacationing Eisenhower in Augusta...
...Buck") Duke, a North Carolina tobaccoman who had set up many factories, manufactured the first successful U.S. machine-made cigarettes. Duke pressured the other major tobacco manufacturers to join him in the American Tobacco Co., which became known as "the Tobacco Trust." "I don't intend to be swallowed by Duke," said Reynolds. "If he does, he'll have a bellyache the rest of his life." But Duke did swallow Reynolds by undercutting its plug prices?and Duke soon had his bellyache...