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Looking Forward. Only once did the visit take a political turn-when the Prime Minister, at an Agriculture Federation outing, forthrightly spoke his views about Canada's burgeoning socialist CCF Party. After praising his own government's efforts to establish social and economic security, the P.M. said: "Let me warn you to beware of change just for the sake of change; or what, in national affairs, is even more dangerous, against accepting at its face value any untried Utopia, or any proclaimed panacea for social ills...
...isolated mission in the red Arizona desert, 40 miles from the nearest paved road, 85 eminent physicians and surgeons assembled last week at an odd sort of convention. The doctors had come from all over the U.S., partly for an outing but mainly to pay their respects to the mission's remarkable chief: big (235 Ibs.) Dr. Clarence G. Salsbury, 62, who is rounding out 20 years of medical missionary work among the Navajo Indians...
...first sun come out than children came out too, in swarms. Scores of the deck promenaders and loungers in the deck chairs were the parents of British girls who had married American servicemen. They were going on a visit rather than a voyage. It was a family outing...
...keeper nodded. Photographer Darby finally wrapped two lengths of Henry's chain around his neck and escaped, somewhat shaken. By & large, our correspondents had a quieter time of it. Some went alone to browse and gape; others took the opportunity to give their youngsters an outing. One, who spent a lively afternoon keeping his young son out of crocodile pits and away from bears' paws, found that he had to go back the next day to see for himself what the zoo was really like. The pair who bore the brunt of the cover story were James Bell...
Victory last Saturday, however, was never as certain as in the previous week's outing on the Charles when the Crimson led M.I.T. and Princeton all the way. For not until the last quarter-mile of the mile and three-quarters course, after stroke Frank Cunningham had pushed the cadence to 40, did the Varsity take the lead away from Navy to win by a quarter-length. M.I.T. was third and Penn fourth...