Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then a rifle crack broke the stillness of the hills, but the Communist insurgents were finding the simpler weapons of rumor, exaggeration and bluff sufficient to keep their campaign going. Operating in little bands of 5 to 25 men, they sent heralds ahead to frighten villages with stories of Communist hordes about to descend, of real or imaginary atrocities committed near by, of the fall of a government fort. Sometimes they rowed back and forth across a river to give the impression of large numbers. Sometimes they herded villages of people before them to make an attack seem bigger...
...shocked thugs who operate the Triad tried psychological retaliation: they put up posters protesting police brutality, many of them signed ominously, "People's Republic of China." But Hong Kong police went ahead anyway last week, convinced that Red China, 15 miles away, was unlikely to intervene on behalf of dope pushers and other spivs, who if caught in Red China for similar activities could get death sentences from the People's courts...
...first seven months jumped 11% to $22.5 billion. The new lift in heavy construction comes at an opportune time, just as builders are warning that tighter mortgage money may slow the pace of home starts, now a near record 1.300,000 a year. Overall construction is moving 12% ahead of last year, at an annual rate of $55 billion; builders expect it to rise to at least $57 billion in 1960. Says Chairman Melvin H. Baker of Buffalo's National Gypsum Co. (1958 sales: $163 million): "Seldom if ever has an industry looked forward to such bright prospects...
Stock Sensation. While many eyes are set on the European small car and its new U.S. competitors, Daimler-Benz is out to grab a heftier share of the big-car market. The U.S. already buys 10% of its production, and its U.S. sales are racing 160% ahead of last year, are expected to top 15,000 cars by year's end. With 54% of its production going to 136 countries, Daimler-Benz has hiked worldwide sales 16% this year, expects to run up a 1959 sales figure of $600 million for the best year in its history...
Whether this constitutes medical magic by a man ahead of his time or dangerous charlatanry is hotly debated. But that it has won fame and fortune for Dr. Niehans there is no doubt. Born in Bern, son of a professor of orthodox medicine, Niehans studied for the Protestant ministry before turning to medicine. He practiced conventional surgery and endocrinology until the late 19205. Then he got interested in transplanting organs from animals to humans. (By no coincidence, this was at the height of the late Serge Voronoff's vogue as a transplanter of monkey testicles.) In 1931 Dr. Niehans...