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...Thanksgiving weekend--also four days--had a toll of 454 deaths in traffic, 54 in fires and 118 in miscellaneous brackets for a total...
...represent brightly burning Author Ruark. Since World War II, besides his syndicated column, old Reporter Ruark (Washington Daily News) has churned out magazine articles, movie scripts and half a dozen books, including the bloody Mau Mau bestseller, Something of Value (TIME, May 2, 1955). All this has taken its toll-several million dollars after taxes, Ruark estimates happily...
...based part of its argument on a statement of practical problems: the worldwide "population explosion," high incidence of abortion, Christianity's occasional tendency to escape reality by taking refuge in tradition. Says the report: "The extremely high rates of abortion in many regions, Eastern and Western, with their toll of human suffering and violation of personality, testify to a tragic determination among parents to find some means, however bad, to prevent unwanted births." The committee added: "It must be confessed that in the past Christian thought has, especially in the area of the family and its relationships, often clung...
...elections to be held "at the latest four years after the actual restoration of peace; that is to say, once a situation has been established in which not more than 200 people a year lose their lives, either in ambushes or isolated attacks." (The Algerian war's 1959 toll so far according to French figures: 20,000 dead in battle, 1,613 killed by terrorists...
Another attraction leading student minds from Quincy's strait-laced code of ethics were the Boston pubs and easyhouses. The Charles River toll bridge provided easy access to the city, and the hope that students could be confined to College grounds rapidly evaporated. Why be a gentleman all the time, students in the 1830's must have asked themselves, with Boston merriment only a bridge away...