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Discusses the efforts of several scientists to study the diseases caused by the hard-shelled ticks of the Bitterroot river in Montana as of November 1941. Kinds of diseases caused by tick bites; Description of the life cycle of ticks; Question raised regarding the severity of the tick-borne diseases on the opposite side of the river.

The article reports that early last month, Herr Bruno Leuschner, head of the State Planning Commission and member of the Politburo of the East German Socialist Unity Party, made a great statement. Speaking to the Central Committee of the Party at a meeting in East Berlin, he announced the virtual collapse of the economic plan for 1957; and he submitted facts and figures which add up to a desperately serious economic situation. Leuschner said, it was still planned to spend 6 billion Deutsche Marks in new investments ,and to increase popular consumption by 12 billion Deutsche Marks in 1957.

Presents the poem "Always a Suspect," by Oswald Mtshali. First Line: I get up in the morning; Last Line: ticks the heart of a thief."

The article presents the poem "Sketch Indoors," by Elizabeth Bohm. First Line: The old lady sleeps; Last Line: Ticks of noon.