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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lang Syne used to be the national anthem,*the Mother Hubbard is the prescribed dress for women, and the primary means of transportation are outriggers and baggalas, which resemble a cross between a Chinese junk and a Spanish galleon. Crime in the Maldives (rhymes with bald wives) is virtually unknown, and once a year most of the islands' 90,000 Moslems try to perform an act of national service, such as whitewashing a government building. But last week the idyllic little islands were reverberating to the cry of nationalism in its most preposterous form...
Moving great works of art always stirs fears-vivid thoughts of a plane's crashing and burning with a considerable part of the work of Van Gogh, or the Pietà gently cracking in two along some unknown flaw line (although technicians, having bombarded the sculpture with X rays and cobalt 60 gamma rays, have discovered it to be the perfect piece of marble that Michelangelo said it was). Beyond fears for the safety of the art, its sponsors are given to worry over whether the likes of World...
Instead of resisting the trend, the nation's five major tiremakers decided to join it, and now produce most of the cheapies themselves, often unknown to the buyers. U.S. Rubber, one of the biggest, makes such tires as Flying A, Atlas and Davis in addition to its prestigious U.S. Royals. Goodrich makes and markets Vanderbilts and Diamonds; Firestone makes Daytons and Cities Service; and Goodyear has just won the contract to make Foremost tires for J. C. Penney, which recently entered the auto-supply field...
When the two-hour period was up each day, those still waiting had to be dispersed by guards; the lucky ones hauled their 60-lb. sacks of cartwheels off to root through them for valuable Morgans. How many-if any-of them turned up is still unknown. But after all, the collectors couldn't lose-even if there was not a Morgan or other rarity in the lot. All they had to do was turn their bag in to the nearest bank and get their handy paper money back. And this, to the Treasury's distress, was just...
When the American Cancer Society gathered a number of the nation's big-name researchers in Palm Beach Shores last week, the most provocative report came from a hitherto-unknown scientist who is not even a specialist in human cancer. Dr. Olive Stull Davis has cancer, and if her theory is right about how she developed the disease, her own case may provide valuable insight into how some cancers are caused...