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Beneath the Skin. Visiting newsmen at the Cape last week got their basic information on the missile-beat regulars-the half-dozen Florida missile buffs who call themselves bird watchers and profit from their pastime as year-round string correspondents for wire services, magazines, a few dailies and the TV networks. Though Defense Secretary Wilson has long promised to take newsmen on a chaperoned tour of the test center, about the only outsiders who have been allowed inside the gate have been local politicians. However, the Air Force has not yet restricted picture taking from the nearby public beaches...
...week's end. with only 3,220,000 doses in the nation's pipelines (against 26 million on Jan. 1), Dr. Burney decided on a year-round drive to flatten the peaks in vaccination activity, permit even-schedule production. He was hopeful that the supply crisis might end by mid-April. In the light of HEW's past misjudgments, Massachusetts officials did not expect it to end before Labor...
...next day, instead of the anticipated run on the bank, the town rallied around the bank and Uncle Bill. Depositors brought in more money than on almost any Saturday since the resort season ended; the busy, year-round Nevele Hotel & Country Club alone deposited $102,-ooo. A wooden booth went up in the town square with the placard: "We're behind you, Bill," and 3.000 residents lined up to sign a petition: "Ellenville is a finer place to live because of his unselfish leadership." Business leaders sent Rose a letter reaffirming the "unique regard we hold...
Summer vacations had already gone the way of other peacetime pleasures. With regular instruction established on a year-round basis, a third 12-week summer term was added to the normal two-semester system...
Throne of Skulls. Montevideans' cheerfulness reflected not only the coming of spring but their confident, year-round belief that democratic, Nebraska-sized Uruguay is the earth's closest imitation of paradise. Beneath the remaining layer of fat stored up during Uruguay's Korean war wool boom, the economy is ailing, but most Uruguayans remain complacently sure that the country is somehow bound to muddle through. That is why there are some thoughtful citizens who seriously believe that what Uruguay needs is a wakeup, shake-up type of crisis...