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...aboard the last run of the Biddeford & Saco Street Railroad's Car 31. At the end of the line, they spontaneously passed the hat among the passengers, added enough of their own money to make $250, and bought the car at the price it would have brought for scrap. They moved it into some pasture land in nearby Kennebunkport, and thus began the Seashore Trolley Museum, the nation's oldest and largest. Today it has nearly 100 cars, annually attracts 30,000 visitors who pay 35? to ride along the museum's 1½ miles of track...
...Manhattan's polyglot 19th District, Democrat Leonard Farbstein, a moderate on the war, seeks nomination for a sixth term but faces a rough scrap with City Councilman Theodore Weiss, who demands an end to all bombing in Viet Nam and a U.S. ceasefire...
...scarcely tolerates thorny scrub and cactus. Inside the Marichal bohio (palm-bark walls, thatched roof, oddments of homemade furniture), a nine-year-old boy sprawls shirtless on the concrete floor, unraveling the thread from an old silk stocking. With infinite care, he winds the thread round and round a scrap of rubber until he has a ball about 9 in. in circumference. The boy's mother enters the room unnoticed and watches, frowning, while he wraps the ball tightly with adhesive tape, tests his handiwork with a couple of bounces off the floor. Crude, maybe even a little lopsided...
...great race all right-for a scrap dealer. Otherwise, the 50th Indianapolis 500 was the most amateurish, confused and frustrating auto race in the history of the famed "Brickyard." Fully one-third of the 33-car field was wiped out on the very first turn; the yellow caution light was on for 41 minutes during the 31 hours; and only seven cars were still running at the finish. The winner of what was supposed to be the fastest race in history was less a hero than a survivor: British Grand
...population. Yet it was from Pakistan that five jet-borne immigrants started Britain's 1962 epidemic of the more virulent and deadly form of the disease, variola major, that claimed 62 victims and caused 24 deaths. Suddenly, Britain, which had abolished compulsory vaccination in 1948, had to scrap its small annual vaccination budget of $650,000 and stage a $3,800,000 crash campaign. Since then, there have been half a dozen outbreaks in Europe. Today, although Britain has tightened its rules, there is still no universal vaccination. Traveling Britons find themselves in the embarrassing position of being required...