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Irma Marie Miller, 29, a waitress, had spent the last ten years in the shadow of the hospital. Her thyroid and parathyroids had been removed for fear of a fatal dis ease. She needed daily doses of thyroid extract. And to make up for the loss of the parathyroids, which control the body's use of calcium, she had to visit the hospital four times a day. on the average, for injections of calcium to save her from muscular spasms which might have choked her to death...
...That Stalin was then either murdered by Beria's cops or-old and ailing-had his death hastened by emotional SHOCK which brought on his fatal stroke. ¶ That Beria-who saved his own life by plotting against his master's-is thus the key man in the new regime. But it would be too obvious and jarring to the public for the policeman to assume full powers himself, especially after Malenkov, during the last Party Congress, had been made to appear "most likely to succeed." "The Russians," wrote a U.S. expert, "are purists of power. They pass...
...appear to be on the way down. Rates have soared because 1) courts have been handing out sky-high judgments in accident cases (TIME, Aug. 27, 1951 et seg.) and, 2) the accident rate itself, notably among young drivers, has gone up alarmingly (28% of all drivers involved in fatal auto accidents in 1951 were under 25). But as the rates went up, independent auto-insurance firms began cutting their rates and snatching business from the large companies. Last week a number of big companies got ready to meet the competition by concentrating on the worst traffic offenders...
...inconsistencies can never blur the uncanny accuracy with which "Tomorrow" has predicted the future. What other group of prognosticators could have said, on January 23, a full six weeks before Russian doctors battled with Stalin's fatal illness, that "Russia will be weakened by bloodletting...
...year ago I had a no-quarter debate with Howard Fast before the Yale Political Union. I am happy to report that the Yale undergraduates seem to have survived the sight of Mr. Fast without fatal contamination; that their sharp and intelligent questions showed how clearly they saw through his arguments; and that they felt by a whopping majority that the anti-Communist side had the best of the debate. I can add that Mr. Fast said nothing that evening that my ten year old son could not handle on a bad day (and I suspect that Mr. Robeson impersonating...