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...Journal's seeming switch came on its "Questions and Answers" page, where it printed an inquiry from an anonymous Wisconsin doctor asking about the value of Salk shots. To provide an expert answer, the Journal selected Dr. Herbert Ratner, health commissioner of Oak Park, Ill., who has been attacking the Salk vaccine ever since it was released in 1955. Ratner wrote that it is "generally recognized" that Salk vaccine is ineffective, because it is "an unstandardized product of an unstandardized process...
Past the veranda of the one-story. frame house runs South Fifth Avenue. It is a narrow, rutted road of yellow clay shaded by oak trees. On the other side of town, beyond Magnolia Street and the county courthouse with its marbled Confederate soldier, runs the avenue known as North Fifth. There stand the great mansions with their porticoes and colonnades and carriage houses. Big Auntie has been there-as downstairs maid and cook on the cook's night out-in the big green house set back from the street by a lawn. Although their names might suggest otherwise...
...First Leontyne. At Laurel's Oak Park High School, Leontyne seemed to specialize in everything. She was a high school cheerleader ("There would be Leontyne at half time," says Kate Price, "walking around the field on her hands") and a soloist on virtually every one of the Negro community's civic and church programs. She also appeared at funerals, until one group of mourners was so overcome by her expressive performance that she was asked to stop singing. She did but vowed angrily: "That's the last funeral I'll ever...
What an afternoon!... In the first place, there was the ennui. And such ennui as it was! A heavy, overpowering ennui, such as results from a participation in eight courses of steaming gravied food, topping off with salted nuts which the little old spinster Gummidge from Oak Hill said she never knew when to stop eating ... an ennui which carried with it a retinue of yawns, snarls and thinly velled insults.... The subject ought to be unmistakeable...
...oak-paneled Bow Street Magistrates' Court had seen nothing like it since the case of Atom Spy Klaus Fuchs in 1950. Up before Magistrate K.J.P. Barraclough last week was an international spy quintet that, the prosecution charged, was caught attempting to pass on to "a potential enemy ... a picture of our current antisubmarine effort and research," as well as details of Britain's first nuclear submarine, the Dreadnought, which is fitted with a U.S.-designed reactor power plant...