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...levees disintegrate and the river roll over most of the tea city of Dibrugarh (pop. 23,000), in the hills of Assam. Back on land, he shook off his nervous aides and went striding across rickety bamboo bridges to watch sawmills, temples, schools and homes collapse and vanish into the muddy torrent. Once a great mass of earth crashed down only 20 feet from him, but Nehru was unhurt...
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson likes to say that if every American farmer would only drink one extra glass of milk each day, the U.S. dairy surplus would soon vanish. Last week, with surpluses still climbing, Secretary Benson tried to get the U.S. Government itself interested in his milk-drinking campaign. Into the hallways of Washington's Agriculture Building went four vending machines, each dispensing half a pint of milk for 10?. Then, saying that he hoped the machines would soon be installed in all Government offices, Secretary Benson marched over to tell Congress the hard facts...
...deals with a child who is more usual than unique. In the title role, Richie Andruseu, a Brooklyn seven-year-old, believe that he has killed his twelve-year-old brother. To avoid the police, he escapes by subway to coney Island where the mechanics of the plot almost vanish and the delightful swagger and expressions of Andruseu emerge. AT first he saunters along the amusement park pavement in awe--youthfully oblivious to the crime he thinks he has committed. Subtly, the camera follows him through the unsympathetic crowds to the rides and refreshment counters. It catches his disappointment when...
...spends half his novel building up this portrait of a girl who, thanks to her wealthy father, can keep what company she pleases. Then, with a bang, he pulls the carpet out from under his heroine. Father Russell is murdered. The jolly businessmen who laughed around his bridge table vanish into thin air-save for one who stays around long enough to pop the remains of Daddy's capital into his own pocket. By the end of the novel, Sylvia has sunk to a stratum from which death is the only escape, where crackers and condensed milk are deemed...
...never had it so good." said one side of the Democratic campaign coin of 1952. Said the other: "Don't let them take it away." As 1953 started, many prophets, even those uninfluenced by political slogans, thought that "it" was bound to vanish. The overshadowing factor in all the predictions was the Korean war. Would the new Administration make good its pledge to end it, or get an armistice? If so, what would be the effect of the reduced arms spending on business...