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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...display a billion bottles of deodorant; yet a modest bill to reduce the stench from our polluted public rivers was vetoed. We have cared so much about 'conspicuous consumption' that our lives are cluttered with gadgets," while "switchblade delinquents haunt the public streets" and the aged go without adequate medical care. "Such has been the direction of our course-under this Republican Administration...
...save the nation by adding two new states, buying medical research, and bringing in a civil rights bill. "If only there had been a Democrat in the White House," said Church, "there would have been plenty of money to enact housing, unemployment, school construction and other such bills without deficit spending and new taxes...
...eleven-car train painted Air Force blue highballed down the tracks of western railroads last week, stopping and starting without warning, ducking in and out of sidings and delaying the crack transcontinental limiteds. In many ways it was the most important train in the nation. Instead of cash-paying passengers or revenue freight, it carried 45 hand-picked officers and men of the Strategic Air Command and enough communications gear to put them in instant and constant contact with SAC bases around the world. Ranging from the deserts of Nevada to the plains of Wyoming and the mountain country...
...blimp made an ideal rescue ship. Its slow cruising speed (30-60 knots) and low operating altitude (under 500 ft.) provided an almost perfect platform for the giant (40 ft., 12,000 lbs.) radar antenna rotating inside the helium-filled gas bag. Its great endurance (up to 95 hours without refueling) promised ample range as it beat to seaward off the New Jersey shore one day last week in search of a racing sloop, overdue on a Bermuda-to-Long Island...
Certainly the presence of women set the Summer School poles apart from the winter session. During the regular term, for example, Radcliffe girls were not permitted to walk through the Yard without an escort. In the summer, however, more than 50 per cent of the students were women, mostly teachers from the Boston area. The number of women necessitated a genteel pattern of social mixing. In place of the current 50 cent mixers, engraved invitations were delivered to each man, graciously requesting "the pleasure of your company at Memorial Hall to meet the ladies of the Summer School...