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...Commerce Department, in a helpful little guidebook for veterans in search of a job, pointed out that it is risky to start a restaurant, because 80% fail or are sold out within five years. But it hastily added that running a restaurant can be good business and that the habit of eating will continue to grow...
...Search for Herring. None of Britain's returning daughters had been able to adjust herself to life in Canada. It was also apparent that a few had not tried. One bride, Minette ("Mickey") Bowen, 20, who had persuaded her husband to join her in England, could hardly wait to get back to her shabby home with her parents in London's slummy, dreary East End. She told reporters that she had missed the English pub ("Even a lemonade tastes better in a pub") and cuddling up to her mother in bed at night...
...Search for Contentment. This sort of talk sat ill with Canadians. Senator William Rupert Davies (Kingston, Ont.), who was visiting in England, took the Liverpool Daily Post to task in a letter: "Try and find out something about the thousands of English girls that have come out to Canada during the past two years and have found there happiness and contentment...
...circumstances," he roared, "shall the Soviet delegation go to San Francisco!" His reason: too far from Moscow. Sputtering protests, he shouted that the U.S. had rigged the race, that the whole thing was a U.S. plot to thwart the London decision of the General Assembly -which had limited the search to the eastern U.S. Comrade Saksin insisted on entering New York's Flushing Meadow, which had not even been listed on the subcommittee's program...
Downstairs, Clerk Rowan phoned in the alarm. While he frantically roused the sleepers, flames and gas ballooned up the two elevator shafts and the two narrow stairways to the ventless roof. Stopped there, the seething mass backed up in search of outlets, shot down hallways with flamethrower force, began melting brass doorknobs, powdering plaster and licking at closed doors. Whenever a door was left open, death entered. At 3:50, when the 60-piece fire department started spindly ladders up along its scorching walls, the "fireproof," 33-year-old Winecoff, which, like most Atlanta hotels, has no outside fire escapes...