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...south guns boomed. Day & night, Red cannon shelled Vitebsk, 15 miles away, and its "escape railway" to the west. From the city and the railroad came the dull, angry answer of German salvos. Things were going badly for the Wehrmacht, but it fought on. Vitebsk was a dam; it had to be held. Its fall would imperil the strongholds of White Russia -Orsha, Mogilev, Zhlobin, Polotsk - perhaps lead to retreat beyond the prewar Polish border...
...sterility is an old slander of this branch of the Equidae, based on a half-truth. The couplings of mule and mule are fruitless (the genetic grounds: incompatibility of chromosomes). But as in the case of Farmer Vermaak's sport, a mule mare now & then carries her own dam's chromosomes-and once in some 200,000 encounters meets the stallion that has her (germ-cell) number...
...Venetian Blinds. Dr. Garfield had worked out his group medicine formula through medical care plans at the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Parker Dam and Imperial Dam projects before Kaiser hired him at Grand Coulee. He had found that complete medical care for workmen in their own hospitals could be financed by a 5?-a-day payroll tax plus a percentage of the industrial insurance premiums. The insurance companies were glad to chip in, as the good medical care cut compensation payments...
...speak, that it would itself "go West and grow up with the country." So for years we have been calling national attention to all kinds of news unfolding in the West-from Upton Sinclair and Harry Bridges to Henry Kaiser, from Ham-and-Eggs and Hetch-Hetchy to Bonneville Dam. And percentagewise we now have more readers on the Coast than any other front-rank magazine...
...next great Congressional debate on the international position of the U.S. will come this fall. Once the question for debate was: Should the U.S. cooperate with the other United Nations? Now all that is over the dam. The people have said yes (the most recent Gallup poll showed 74% for an international police force). The Republican Party generally has cleared its skirts of isolationism; with this refuge gone, only a few really bigoted isolationists remain...