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...concentration of power by business was bad for our country-and it was-then the concentration of power by Government is equally bad. And it is." With that observation off his chest, ex-Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson last week advanced a revolutionary method of stopping the "creeping paralysis of socialism...
Because the emphasis was on offense, the defensive team were body protectors, which slowed the wearers down considerably, but saved them from possible injury. The pads, which resemble baseball catchers' chest protectors, cover the wearer from chest to ankle...
Generals may run the army, but the authority felt by the harried recruit is the rasping voice of the sergeant. Like many another veteran who has heard that voice too often, Dr. Burgess L. Gordon, Philadelphia chest specialist and onetime army colonel, is convinced that sergeants are really bad medicine...
...command, "Suck in your gut!" Dr. Gordon told the International Congress of Chest Diseases in Rio de Janeiro, may make a chubby draftee look more soldierly, but it may also damage his health. Rigid military posture prevents a man from using his lungs properly. And faulty breathing can cause discomfort over the heart, upset digestion, bring on insomnia and depression. A moderate paunch. Dr. Gordon said, might better be left to its own devices. Military or not, "the important asset of the firm, rounded abdomen is its capacity to support the diaphragm within the effective range of expiration and inspiration...
Sharp Answer. In Bridgeport, Conn., James Augustus. 29. taken to the hospital with cuts on his left hand, right arm and chest, told police that his wife took after him with a kitchen knife when he asked, at bedtime: "Why don't we have clean sheets...