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...outstanding exception, Herbert Hoover, celebrates his 81st birthday this week.) Says Dublin: "There is no conclusive evidence that the increasing burden of office is taking a greater toll from our Chief Executives...
...sure exactly how many men, women and children have been shot, stabbed or beaten to death since the villages of San Simón (pop. 900) and El Guarda (pop. 600) declared war on each other, but the death toll is greater than the present population of either village. So deep-rooted has been the hatred between the two communities (64 miles northwest of Mexico City) that they continued their private war even while the Revolution raged around them...
...Haven express, 20 minutes late out of New York and bound for Boston, roared into a sharp curve near Bridgeport at high speed and jumped the tracks, killing the engineer and injuring 24 people. Luckily, the conductor had just moved passengers out of the first five coaches, otherwise the toll might have been disastrous. Service on the New Haven's main line was snarled for five days while commuters rode to work by bus or detouring trains running up to an hour late. At week's end Massachusetts State Representative James L. O'Dea Jr. demanded...
...party unity. When Johnson wanted the Senate to move faster in its processes his signal was a finger twirled in the air, in the manner of an airplane mechanic instructing a pilot to "Rev your engines." But as the daily, nerve-shredding pounding of brain and body took its toll, perhaps Lyndon Johnson revved his own engines too often...
...miles in north central Pennsylvania to assemble jet engines and 5,000 acres in New Jersey's Ramapo Hills for a bombproof headquarters. The petroleum industry has set up five regional committees to run the natural gas and oil industry in each area, and A.T.& T. arranged alternate toll-call routes and emergency generators. One company has even stocked its secret rendezvous with disaster pay checks printed on distinctive notepaper and made out in standard amounts...