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...Seattle's sprawling Todd Drydocks, workmen this week put the finishing touches on a strange vessel. On its flush deck were a twin-motored seaplane and a radio tower. On port and starboard decks were long rows of machines connected by conveyor belts; in its hold were gleaming, white, airtight compartments...
...says, he felt as though they had moved on to the next ranch. Thenceforth he found it all but impossible to keep on writing at all. When their servants left to do war work, the O'Neills in their big establishment were stranded as literally as a beached vessel. (Neither of them has ever learned to drive...
Neurologists estimate that multiple sclerosis is more prevalent than infantile paralysis. The disease is characterized by sclerosis (hardening) of scattered patches of nerves in the central nervous system. It has been attributed variously to 1) clots in the small blood vessels of the nervous system; 2) spasmic contractions of the blood vessels; 3) a spirochete (not the syphilis variety). But treatments based on these theories (e.g., anti-clotting and blood-vessel dilating drugs) do not cure the disease. It usually strikes between the ages of 20 and 35. It is seldom painful, and rarely fatal, but often cripples its victims...
...Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder, Presidential Adviser Clark Clifford, and Theodore Marks of Kansas City, who had been best man at his wedding 27 years ago. He had only an irreducible minimum of White House aides. Twenty-three reporters and cameramen were isolated well astern in an escort vessel, the destroyer escort Weiss. As the yacht headed downriver under a grey, drizzling sky, Harry Truman stretched, left his guests and strolled off to his stateroom...
Meanwhile the derelict Farmer was legitimate quarry for salvagers. An 8,258-ton vessel owned by the United States Lines, she was loaded with buckwheat and other food for hungry Britain. Ship and cargo together were worth $4,500,000. A sister ship, the American Ranger, and a U.S. destroyer hastened to her side. But a dinky British steamer out of Cardiff, the Elizabete, got there first...