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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spotted proudly among the bearded troopers as the main rebel army moved into Havana last week were handfuls of gun-toting girls. They were the women of the revolution, who rarely fired rifles but in day-to-day operations kept the hidden rebellion alive. Fidel Castro had a word of grateful praise for "the valor of the Cuban women in the waiting and praying and smuggling of guns, ammunition and messages...
This was the word last week at a University of Michigan symposium with which the National Foundation launched its 1959 March of Dimes. Vaccinventor Jonas Salk was more frank than ever before in conceding the ineffectiveness of an unspecified proportion of the commercial vaccine released, and contrasting it with the small batches made in his University of Pittsburgh laboratory. Dr. Salk has always stoutly insisted that his handmade vaccine was capable of doing everything expected of it, and among hundreds of children inoculated with it there have been few cases where it failed to "take." Lat since wholesale vaccinations began...
...Word in Space. For the moment, most scientists are concentrating on sending not man but "black boxes" into space. Humans are too heavy, bulky, ineffective and delicate to pay their way in the space vehicles of the near future. Instruments will do much better with far less demand for accommodation. Best of all, the black boxes need not get home alive. If they have radioed their findings back to earth, they can vaporize in a planet's atmosphere or wander into space never to return...
...Chicago show the new word in the furniture men's vocabulary was "elegance.'' To tempt the growing U.S. luxury market, the buyers want-and are getting-better designs and higher quality. Prices may go up 3% or so in 1959, but for his money the consumer will get better furniture. Said one Seattle retailer: "There was a long period when manufacturers had atrocious taste in furniture-that day is gone...
Surveying the battlefield, British Aluminium Director William J. Thomas said ruefully: "We were sitting ducks." Said a spokesman for the winners: "If you asked me what mistake they made, I'd reply in one word: arrogance. Their kind applauds the rules and practices of capitalism only when it suits them...