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...every 100 families who read the Atlantic Edition, 59 own refrigerators, 49 gas stoves, 41 electric stoves, 30 have electric washing machines, and 63 have vacuum cleaners. There are 140 radios, 87 autos and ten television sets among each 100 families, and 32 of the families have one or more dogs. Six of each 100 own a motorboat or yacht and one owns a private airplane...
...great problems at Yale in the past has been a great vacuum existing in relations between the University and the fraternities. Over the years, the clubs have always fe4lt the College was closing in on them, putting on unnecessary restrictions, and attempting to shift as many fraternity functions as possible to the College. In some cases, this feeling has been justified but in many it was simply a matter of the University administration's being out of touch with the fraternities...
...Unhappy State." The sense of vacuum resulted partly from the State Department's tendency to postpone hard decisions; but shrewd foreign offices abroad also hesitated to accept promises from or make commitments to a State Department whose mandate was hanging on an election. And so, without effective prodding from the U.S., the European Army plan languished, unratified by the two most important nations in it, France and Germany. France aired its grievances against the U.S. (TIME, Nov. 3); NATO adjured its member nations to meet their 1952 armament targets, and feared they wouldn't. In Britain last week...
...disservice to the fighting Army." Voorhees charged that most correspondents were "extreme" pessimists who sowed "doubt and fear among Americans as to the skill and honesty of Army leaders." They seemed, he says, "indifferent to the consequences of their dispatches. They appeared to pretend they operated in a vacuum, above criticism, shorn of responsibility, answerable to no one or nothing save the signers of their paychecks." Some correspondents broke, or evaded, censorship, says Voorhees, and deliberately misinterpreted communiques...
Chicago's Clinton Specialty Works has a toy electric vacuum cleaner that gathers dust ($12.95). One doll has hair that "grows" by means of a winding device hidden in the head; another, "Joan Pa-looka" from the comic strip, is permanently scented, comes with baby powder and soap ($7). A new method of rooting hair in the scalp makes many dolls safe against countless hair-brushings and curl ings - until brother comes along with his toy barber...