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Bank have gone to Brazil-$1.3 billion worth. The U.S. has trained more than 1,000 doctors, nurses and technicians, has helped to eradicate malaria, and to build Brazil's greatest steel plant. ¶In the private field, the U.S. buys 58% of Brazil's coffee exports, has invested more than $1.3 billion to employ 94,000 Brazilians, do $427 million worth of local business with Brazilian suppliers, pay $77 million in taxes. U.S. capital is helping Brazil develop by making trucks, tires, electricity and electrical equipment, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, business machines. ¶In the defense field...
...Boss Walter Ulbricht smiled. It was the 550th anniversary of his home-town university, and what he had done to it made him proud. Since 1953, Leipzig University has been called Karl-Marx University, "model of the socialist type of university." Last week Leipzig, which took six centuries to build, was a model of how to kill a great institution in six years...
...attempt to soothe man and bird alike, the Navy is creating an airport for albatrosses on the nearby, nonstrategic island of Kure, hopes to build up the small albatross population there (current count: 700). Fortnight ago Navy bulldozers cut a series of 50-ft. swaths through the brush to make special gooney runways. But last week, at the peak of their mating season, the gooneys again defied the U.S. Navy. As ornithologists had predicted, not one winged off to the new, man-made sanctuary...
...year at St. Louis' Washington University, he joined Manhattan's New York University, intensified his research on enzymes, the catalysts of life. In 1946 he had a brilliant post-doctoral student, Arthur Kornberg. Within ten years Dr. Ochoa and colleagues found a way to make an enzyme build up nucleic acids and, in effect, create a synthetic form of RNA. Brooklyn-born Dr. Arthur Kornberg, 41, graduated from the City College of New York at 19. Working for his M.D. at the University of Rochester, he picked up hepatitis, put the experience to good use by publishing...
...Rubin, attorney for John H. L. Sullivan '23, strongly attacked the decision of the Boston Redevelopment Authority to raze over 300 homes and stores near the Medical School. The Authority would build a 270-unit apartment house consisting of one-room suites on the site...