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Today, the flight to the country has reached the point where some suburbs themselves are getting crowded: Taxes climb as new schools go up; roads must be paved, police and fire departments organized. Because most suburbs have little industry, the homeowners themselves must carry most of the load. But now industry is seeking the country, too, looking for large tracts of open land to build efficient one-story plants. Of 2,658 plants built in the New York area from 1946 to 1951, only 593 went up in the city proper. The great stores, factories, and office buildings are actually...
...kitchen was bright with the newest gadgets, and brighter still for a load of groceries that Jean McCarthy, his adoring wife, had ordered by long distance from her hospital bed in New York. Joe and the reporter walked through a dining room stacked high with boxes, perhaps 200 of them−wedding presents that the busy McCarthys (married last September have not got around to opening...
...raise the program to an academic level approaching that of the rest of the College. Or the ROTC courses can be limited to practical material, with credit reduced and no pretense of intellectual equality. The first of these measures is unsound, for it would place too heavy a load on the student. The ROTC's are designed to turn out capable officer material for the services--to do this, they must continue to offer the factual material now in the courses. These facts represent the particular skills a military man must have in his background before he can begin...
Latest hopeful is Philadelphia-born Margaret Harshaw, 41, who is gradually shouldering a greater load of heavy Wagnerian leads. Big (5 ft. 8 in.) and strong enough to brandish a spear handily and with enough stamina to last out a four-hour opera, Soprano Harshaw seems a natural Wagnerian. She arrived at the Met in 1942 as a contralto, gradually developed her high notes until she became a full-fledged soprano. A fortnight ago, she began belting out impressive "ho-yo-to-hos" in one of Wagner's grandest roles -the helmeted goddess Briinnhilde in Die Walkure-with such...
Over Kiel, Knoke had time to watch the heavy babies in action. "They dump their load right on the Germania shipyards. I am impressed by the precision with which those bastards bomb; it is fantastic." But precision had its price: by the end of 1943, Knoke had shot down 20 Allied planes, and had himself been shot down twice. A fat man in scarlet boots rewarded him with the Gold Cross...