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...badly damaged Florida, then to the Baltic, and brought back to New York. It was the first time that wireless was used [by the Republic] to bring help to a stricken ship. I am 80 years old. My husband and I were on the Republic, bound for a two-month honeymoon in Italy when the tragedy occurred...
...two-month wait between the primaries and the real preliminaries of election year 1956, the U.S. voter had a little trouble keeping his eyes open. The U.S. was at peace, its people were more prosperous than ever, President Eisenhower was on the mend, and moderation was the spirit of the day. The voter nodded drowsily while Democratic candidates trudged busily around the country. Last week he woke up with a start to discover that Adlai Stevenson held a runaway lead for the Democratic nomination. And next week even the most somnolent of the U.S.'s 120 million televiewers will...
COSTLIER BEEF is in sight; choice grades soared in Chicago stockyards to $25.50 per cwt., highest since May 1955. With the 13 major feeding states reporting 10% fewer cattle on feed lots than a year ago and shipments down to a two-month low, stockyard prices climbed $2.50 in three days...
...attract these high calibre college students, federal agencies could well duplicate the recruiting techniques of private industry. One such program is the "summer internship," a two-month period of orientation and responsible work for a select number of potential civil servants. Now offered in a handful of departments, the training program uses students as researchers and assistants to personnel and other administrative officers. The student is encouraged, but not expected, to return to the agency after graduation as a regular employee...
Along the frontiers of Europe a word heard ever more loudly is "redefection"-meaning the return of a refugee to his home in the Communist empire. Last week an Emergency Commission of the International Rescue Committee, having completed a two-month study in Western Europe, reported that 1,158 refugees went back to their Red homelands in the 13 months ending Jan. 31, 1956. During the same period about 6,000 non-German Europeans fled Communism by slipping through the Iron Curtain to the West. Among the reasons for redefection, according to IRC: Communist propaganda appeals and threats of reprisal...