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...South Bend, Ind., made a strong pitch to Weeks to buy a 1954 Studebaker. The salesman's name: Paul Hoffman, chairman of the board of the Stude baker Corp...
...partly paralyzed victims of past polio epidemics, three orthopedic surgeons reported a promising technique. At Shriners' Hospital for Crippled Children in San Francisco, they transplanted muscle from the chest. Patients who could not bend their elbows can now lift weights; two who were unable to close their lower jaws, because of wasted muscles, now can chew hard food...
...sudsen one. In fact, for several years the Syndics had been tending more toward the sciences, including government, economics and sociology. Not that they had lost interest in the arts and letters, but the new topics were on the rise, and the Syndics were great enough to bend with the wind of public interest. They insisted only that the works be scholarly. then, too, the Press was quite rapidly expanding its operations, and every year brought an increase in the number of published titles. Since the star of the arts and letters was waning in comparison to the newer "sciences...
...time for morning prayers, as the crack Pakistan Mail raced westward across the Sind desert one day last week. In the wooden cars at the front of the train, crowded beyond normal capacity, shivering Moslem passengers balanced precariously on narrow wooden seats to bend their knees in the direction of Mecca. In cars reserved for them, veiled womenfolk nursed babies and tied up bedrolls in anticipation of arrival at Karachi in an hour's time. Pakistan's bearded Foreign Minister Sir Mohammed Zafrullah Khan made his devotions in the quiet of an air-conditioned carriage...
There was little time for formal prayer, however, in the cab of the Mail's locomotive as it rounded a bend 75 miles from Karachi at 60 m.p.h. Sprawled athwart the rails dead ahead were two tank cars, filled with gasoline, from a freight which had run off the track ten minutes earlier. Before the Mail's engineer could even slam on his brakes, the locomotive was plowing through the tank cars. An explosion rent the air, and the first two cars burst into flame like struck matches. A thick column of smoke boiled into...