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...Washington, the U.S. Public Health Service reported signs that the polio season has reached its peak and may be tapering off. Total cases so far this polio season: a "normal" 12,221. ¶ The Pentagon sent out a nationwide malaria alert to state health officers. More than 800 soldiers returning from Korea have been found to have active malaria parasites in their blood; home-grown Anopheles mosquitoes can spread the infection. Danger zones: Georgia (237 active cases), Oklahoma (101), Kentucky (97), Colorado (65), Wisconsin (60). ¶ The A.M.A. proudly reported a total of 26,191 potential doctors enrolled...
...Ohio's Taft and Illinois' Douglas, it would have put administration of foreign aid in the hands of a single agency (as the House had voted). The amendment was defeated by a majority which preferred to leave control of the money divided between the State Department, the Pentagon...
...started its extension courses for the armed forces five years ago, when some of its professors were invited to the Pentagon to lecture on public speaking and history. Soon they were holding classes in science and the humanities at other military posts in the Washington area. But there was one big hurdle: too often students were ordered overseas in the middle of a term...
...last week, Captain Rickover's task was a lot nearer completion than either the Navy or the tight-lipped Atomic Energy Commission would admit officially. The Pentagon released a curt, one-sentence statement saying that it had awarded a contract for an atomic sub to the Electric Boat Co. of Groton, Conn. "From now on," said an AEC director, "you can gauge our progress by the increase in vagueness of our reports...
...Through Channels. The battle was frequently bitter, always uphill. At first, the Navy was coolly indifferent, more interested in relaxing from the last war than preparing for a new one. Rickover badgered his superiors until they began to listen, slowly working his way up through Pentagon channels. By 1947, Rickover had convinced Admiral Chester Nimitz; the Navy declared an atomic submarine "militarily desirable...