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...Geneva hotelkeepers, at the peak of the summer rush and with hotels filled, said such a meeting would be impossible before the end of the month...
...that could not prevent such disaster. Physician Still proclaimed: "I believe that the Maker of man has deposited in the human body drugs in abundance to cure all infirmities . . . All the remedies necessary to health are compounded within the human body." To get the human drug factory working at peak efficiency, Still prescribed lavish doses of spinal manipulation to preserve "structural integrity." For generations, osteopaths faithfully followed Still in emphasis on manipulation, de-emphasis on drugs...
Family Party. Resplendent in white from the peak of his fedora to the toes of his buckskin shoes, Marshal Tito was at dockside to pump Colonel Nasser's hand. Handsome Mme. Tito, buxom in blue silk, embraced Nasser's wife. Bands and cannon boomed. Then, past an honor guard on a street festooned with flowers and the flags of the Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia and the United Arab Republic, the two Presidents rode in an open Rolls-Royce, followed by their wives in a yellow Cadillac convertible, to the presidential guest house, the cliffside Villa...
...moved into view and their audiences followed them. For about five years radio played country cousin to TV. Then radio, in terms of listeners and earnings, began a spectacular comeback. Last week radio's listenership was up 8% over last year, 25% over its pre-TV peak in 1947. A record 140 million sets are in use v. 66 million at TV's dawn. Radio's revenues are higher today than they ever were even in radio's so-called heyday, and are expected to total $700 million for this year...
Against the Jungle. New York's police, a force almost as large as two army divisions, had made plans as thorough as an army's offensive. The department was at near peak strength; by special order no more than 12% of personnel would be on vacation at any one time. The remaining 88% turned eyes away from the schools and wintertime haunts, kept watch on the tenement streets and summer hangouts...