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...list is growing at the rate of 1,000 a month. ¶Illegal dope traffic has trebled since World War IL At the end of the war, there was one addict to every 10,000 persons in the U.S.; in 1955 there was one to every 3,000. Thirteen percent of all addicts in the country are under 21. ¶ Approximately 50% of all crime in U.S. cities, and 25% of all crime in the nation, is attributable to drug addiction...
...Thirteen non-Communist nations: Austria, Cambodia, Ceylon, Finland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Spain. Five Communist states: Albania, Bulgaria, Hungary, Rumania and Outer Mongolia. * Urged by John Foster Dulles in 1950, while Republican adviser to Secretary of State Dean Acheson, on the ground that "the U.N. will best serve the cause of peace if its Assembly is representative of what the world actually is, and not merely representative of the parts that we like...
...another story." He has also, on occasion, improved that dependable old gambit, "And now let us hear a word from our sponsor ..." When the commercial is over, the camera comes back to Hitchcock, finds him still determinedly counting: "five hundred and eleven, five hundred and twelve, five hundred and thirteen! Thank...
...airplane did not go away, and neither did Mitchell. Topping a series of crashes, the Navy airship, the Shenandoah, was ripped apart in an Ohio line squall. Thirteen officers and men were killed. Two days later Mitchell dropped a journalistic blockbuster. "These accidents," he announced to the press, "are the result of the incompetency, the criminal negligence and the almost treasonable administration of our national defense by the Navy and War Departments...
...group on Natural Sciences and the section on Physical Sciences the tutors faced more undergraduates than they expected. William Shepard (above, left), teaching fellow in General Education and leader of the Physical Sciences section, seemed concerned that too many students had come to discuss Chemistry and Physics. He had thirteen present, and expressed hope for attrition...