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...weeks ago at the age of 71. A lifelong railroader, Aydelott signed on as a track laborer for the Rio Grande in 1936, shortly after graduating from the University of Illinois with a degree in transportation. He moved up fast, learned his business as an assistant gang foreman, track inspector, engineering assistant and trainmaster. He changed to a white collar in 1943, was made vice president and general manager in 1954, executive vice president last year...
...parodies, the "Dial" parody of 1925, the problem of pornography arose again, but this time on the format, which contained two embracing nude figures and was entitled "Neo-Platonic Love." The Cambridge Police Inspector banned the magazine from newsstands, and the Boston Postmaster banned this issue from the mails, but national authorities later vindicated the magazine. Meanwhile, the issue had already sold...
...marble that would pay someone more than half a million dollars. In the Sydney slum suburb of Redfern, Mary Milner fell on her knees as she heard the number read out over the radio: it was that of a ticket shared by her husband, a $42-a-week glassworks inspector, the local baker, a manufacturer, a bootmaker, a bookkeeper and a news agent. Said Joe Milner: "It comes sudden." Said the baker: "Now I'll put some real dough in my bread...
...Movement: In July 1953, some 30 Saint-Ceré merchants, notified that the tax inspector was about to examine their books, appealed to Councilor Poujade, who formed a committee that threw out the tax inspectors, later organized resistance against the police. ("I cheat on my taxes. I always have. I couldn't get by otherwise.") Poujade formed the Union for the Defense of Shopkeepers and Artisans, which quickly spread throughout France. In March last year, heading a national movement of 800,000 supporters, he called a taxpayers' strike, took his fight for fiscal reform to the National Assembly...
Last week's population, smaller than usual because of pre-Christmas discharges, included 18 women, 13 of them housewives, as well as a stenographer, a telephone supervisor, a clerk, an artist and one unemployed; among the eight men were two mechanics, a cleaner, a hairdresser, a steel inspector and three unemployed. Their illnesses range from the commonest neuroses to severe psychoses. The decision as to whether a patient can be admitted and effectively treated is made not on the basis of a diagnostic label, but on whether he or she is too disturbed, and thus likely to disturb others...