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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Grim Jaws. I found few rank & file Yugoslavs who looked that far ahead with that much optimism. Why then do the people set their jaws grimly and bear the confusion and hardship? Apathy is part of the answer. It is easier to get along with the police state than to stand...
...years passed. Che Aminah loved the girl, gave her the Moslem name Nadra, moved with her to a jungle village north of Singapore. After VJ, the Hertoghs were repatriated to Holland. As best they could, they tried to find Che Aminah and their lost daughter, finally found them last May. Then they ran into fierce emotional barriers. Che Aminah insisted that mama Hertogh had given her Bertha. The girl, now 13 years old and brought up as a Moslem, did not want to leave her foster home...
...merely gave advice on what sort of furniture to buy, what soundproofing, chalkboards or gym floors. In overcrowded towns, they analyzed population trends, decided just how much more space each school district would need to take care of its students properly. In the town of Soquel, for instance, they found that the elementary-school population had risen more than 16% in a single year, that the school had tried to make room for 282 more pupils than it should, and that it had only half the desirable amount of playground space. In Los Altos, the Stanford group recommended...
...disease that thrives on poverty, overcrowding, malnutrition and ignorance, its prevention is largely a sociological problem. Doctors, however, have long searched in vain for a medical weapon that would work against TB with the sure efficacy of, say, the smallpox vaccine against smallpox. The best they have found so far is the vaccine called BCG, which was first tried out on calves in 1908 at France's Pasteur Institute...
...Last Second. Other allergies had built up over 5½ years. Club owners could stomach Happy's sonorous ("Ah love baseball") speeches and his bourbon baritone renditions of My Old Kentucky Home, but they found Happy unpalatable whenever he tried to be baseball's "czar" in more than name. The most famous example was Chandler's year-long suspension of Leo Durocher just before opening day, 1947. Other ranklers: the 1949 suspension of Durocher for hitting a fan (later lamely withdrawn when investigation cleared Leo), an order this year to Owner Saigh to cancel a scheduled Sunday...