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...police searched his house in Dedham and returned with a van load of 1500 library books, discovered in barrels in his cellar. When Williams was out on bail, the superintendent of Widener, John Shea, found what the Cambridge Police had missed: 800 more books...
...billion rise in fiscal 1957. For years, U.S. defense chiefs worried that the nation might not be able-or willing-to carry the necessary burden. But as the gross national product has increased, the burden has shrunk until it is less than 10% of the gross U.S. output, a load that has proved easy to carry...
...heart attack, he said, was not caused by the stresses and pressures of the presidency; the President, like most of Dr. White's 12,000 other heart patients, was not likely to suffer a second attack. The President would be able to assume a much heavier work load starting around Jan. 9, after a two-week trip to the South for an easy return to normal exercise. The big political question of whether Dwight Eisenhower would be fit enough to seek a second term, Dr. White implied, could be answered in mid-February, after his next and probably final...
...Work Load. "In summary, the progress to date has been excellent and encouraging, but he has not yet been subjected to his full load of work. Four or five weeks of exposure to that should suffice for a medical estimate as to the ability of his heart to stand the work. If, for example, he should resume pretty much his full job in the second week- I think about the 9th of January-four or five weeks added on to that date would be the time that we doctors would think desirable for that more or less final test...
...deep-voiced Tennessee Ernie Ford, and leaped to the top of the nation's bestseller lists as fast as any record ever made. It has a driving beat, like the cars clanking to and from the underground yard, and its words carry a kind of homey cynicism: You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt...