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...Lahore Horse and Cattle Show, she entered beside Ayub in a gold-trimmed carriage drawn by six steeds and escorted by 40 mounted horsemen in red coats. As 40,000 Pakistanis cheered, Jackie saw camels dance and salaam, prize cattle parade, horses two-step to drums. Eying a water buffalo that Ayub admired...
...peter out. Hoping to diversify the company (then called Yuba Consolidated Gold Fields), the directors brought in as chairman and president a hustling and autocratic executive named John L. McGara. McGara, 51, who had made his name by merging a complex of plate steel and boiler equipment suppliers into Buffalo's Adsco Industries, abolished Yuba's monthly board meeting to give himself freer rein. He ruthlessly dismissed old Yuba hands who questioned his policies. The directors didn't mind, because McGara promised that with his kind of leadership Yuba would do "in two or three years what...
...spaces in the wool allow the skin to dry, and ease the pressure on the spine," says Dr. Gaenslen. "I order a sheepskin for a patient the same as I'd order aspirin." A Buffalo surgeon uses deerskins, finds that they work well, and has no difficulty getting hunters in the neighborhood to donate them-a radio appeal once brought in hundreds. Two of the idea's biggest boosters are El Paso's Dr. Louis W. Breck and Dr. Saul Gonzalez, who have used sheepskins for thousands of patients. They have seen virtually no bed ulcers...
...killer among the various kinds of cancer is losing its punch. Overall, between 1930 and 1959, the death rate per 100,000 from stomach cancer has dropped from 25.4 to 9.8, which multiplies out as 20,000 deaths in 1959. This drop, writes Buffalo's Dr. George E. Moore in Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, "is adequate proof that gastric cancer is not inevitable." But the factors in the victim's way of life that might cause the disease remain to be identified...
...advanced and likely to prove fatal, shows puzzling variations in frequency. The poor, says Dr. Moore, are more likely to get it than the rich. This suggests that the recent decrease reflects an improvement in the diets of the poor. At Roswell Park Memorial Institute in Buffalo, ethnic groups with high rates of stomach cancer have only one dietary peculiarity in common: they eat a lot of cabbage. Dr. Moore comments: "Fortunately, the consumption of cabbage has been decreasing for several decades...