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...thin dime and one subway stop away from the Yard, the 13-year-old Cambridge Police Station is as sensitive to Veritas vibrations as University Hall itself. Situated within whistle-distance of Central Square, the triangular four-story building is home base for a force that has worked hand and stick with the University Police since 1846 maintaining a Widener-like order throughout the College. With a reputation for knowing the student better than does his dean, the 214-man force keeps its headquarters informed on everything from Mt. Auburn pinball machines to Boylston Street bookstalls, and not even...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Circling the Square | 3/18/1947 | See Source »

Sunburn & Archeology. Despite Mexico City's thin air and his back-breaking schedule, the President seemed to enjoy his furlough from Washington immensely. He returned the "Vivas!" of street crowds, shook hands untiringly at dinners and parties, slept well under a robe of vicuna pelts at the embassy, got up as early as usual. On his last day he went sightseeing. In the morning he took a 2½-hour jaunt in the Sacred Cow, peered down from 13,000 feet at smoking Paricutin volcano. After that, reddening in the sun, he drove 30 miles to view the archeological...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fiesta | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...bottles" are tubes of paper-thin, transparent plastic (cost: half a cent each). They are packaged as a roll of sterile tubing, sealed at intervals. Mother snips off a piece of tubing with sterile scissors, fills it, fits a sterilized nylon crown and rubber nipple over the open end, and squeezes out the air. The baby feeds with little effort: the milk flows easily. Nurse Allen thinks it is "the nearest approach to breast feeding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: No Boiling, No Burps | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

...pints of blood and plasma in some cases) and big liquid feedings by injection, before & after the operation. Most of the functions of the stomach, pancreas and some other organs, Brunschwig points out, can be performed by substitutes: a section of intestine takes the place of the stomach, a thin slice of pancreas left in the body, or injections, can supply the body's insulin needs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Nonessential Stomach | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Presented by Council President Richard G. Axt '46, who was ushered into the thin, balding operator's sanctum by a new addition to the staff, the resolution stated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Council Urges Probe of Club 100 Racial Policy | 3/11/1947 | See Source »

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