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...sturdy, 5-ft. 4-in. blonde from Los Angeles who still sports braces on her teeth and looks young enough to crash the ticket gate for half fare, gracefully stroked her way to a new American record of 19 min. 45 sec. in the 1,500-meter freestyle, longest and most grueling of all swimming events...
...records. Classes were not then unless sufficient demand existed--and with relatively little publicity and no academic credit for the courses, command and was naturally low. In 1884 and 1885, elementary chemistry was the only summer instruction offered at the University. (Thus, Chem 1, started in 1873, has the longest continuous record of any Summer School Class). 1886 to 1887, Botany, Elementary Chemistry, and Geology constituted the entire offering...
...continent from Seattle to St. Paul on almost parallel routes-last week announced that they are close to a firm agreement to merge. A combination of the two roads, bitter rivals in the days of the empire builders, would produce a system with 17,492 miles of track, the longest in the U.S. The two roads' revenue last year amounted to $778 million, second only to the Pennsylvania's. Included in the merger would be the railroads controlled by the two lines: the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (1959 revenues: $263 million), the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, the Colorado & Southern...
Your footnote, which states that "the U.S. is the world's only major industrial country without some form of national medical insurance for the aged," completely disregards the fact that under the present medical system our mortality rates are the lowest, our longevity the longest, and our public health the finest of any of these "socialized" countries. Thank goodness our President had the courage to speak out as being "utterly opposed" to any compulsory insurance program...
...Wellesley, Mass, is John 11:35. The reason became obvious this week when 266 boys and girls lined up to collect their cash prizes for memorizing Bible verses. John 11:35 is only two words-"Jesus wept"-and as good for a dollar as Esther 8:9, the longest...