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...Miami, a recently retired Army colonel applied for compensation, explained that he had been retired involuntarily and would be perfectly willing to take any colonel's work the unemployment office could offer. There is precious little demand for regimental commanders in Miami, so the ex-colonel collected the Florida maximum of $33 a week for 26 weeks to add to his comfortable pension...
...area is going under water every year. There are some 80,000 private pools, and new pool permits are issued at a rate of 12,000 a year. Two out of every nine pool owners in the U.S. live there and cavort in 1,600,000,000 gallons of precious rain water brought in by aqueduct every day. But into every pool of rain water somebody's little life may fall. From 1952 to 1959, 102 people drowned in the backyard. And the present accident rate costs Los Angeles some 30 lives a year. By law, pool owners must...
...because of the danger of misuse by addicts or for suicide. There may also be exceptions for anti-cancer drugs, if the patient does not know what disease he has. But in general, the A.M.A. concludes: "The name of the drug and its strength on the label may save precious minutes and spell the difference between life and death in cases of attempted suicide, accidental overdosage or accidental poisoning of children." Labeling also will help to prevent mix-ups be tween drugs being taken by different members of the family...
...artist "must always take into account improvisation." But if a work of art was an object with independent life, it was also a window into the heart. "Oh!" he exclaimed. "The smile of a dying man! The look in the mother's eyes! The embraces of despair! Precious realm of painting! That silent power that speaks at first only to the eyes and then seizes and captivates every faculty of the soul...
...Cloisters, the branch of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art that houses medieval treasures, it conveys a sense of perfect and untarnished work from a hand long since turned to dust. But it came through only by luck: a large proportion of contemporaneous objects of art made of precious metal was later melted down to provide some prince or tyrant with funds for a now-forgotten...