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...CANTON, MISS. A shotgun blast struck five Negroes as they left a voter-registration meeting. None were seriously hurt. A white service station attendant was charged with the shooting...
...following night at nearby Canton, Lamarche scored his 16th after eight seconds of the first period, but the Larries recovered quickly as Ron Mason scored unassisted 24 seconds later...
...Unbudgeable. There are two famous Williams in the revised history of Switzerland: William Tell and William Holden. Sometimes Holden is away looking after his hotel in Kenya, but more often he is back in the old canton, cruising around Lake Geneva in his $30,000 yacht or resting in his 15-room lake villa. "I love Switzerland," he says. "Even if the taxes here were the same as in the U.S., I would not budge...
Hang Seng inherited this credo from its founder, the late B. Y. ("Big") Lin, who used a shrewd sense of timing and a quiet cadre of agents to "influence" the gyrating gold markets in Canton and Shanghai during the 19305. Lin cashed in when refugees from the Japanese invasion of China flocked to Hong Kong to change their Chinese folding money for gold. When the Japanese occupied Hong Kong. Hang Seng deftly resettled in unoccupied Macao; it moved back to Hong Kong right after the war. then profited from another rush for gold as the Communists swept down into central...
...years. Biochemist Choh Hao Li has devoted himself to discovering the functions of a small part of a small, lima-bean-sized gland that is lodged at the base of the human brain. With each experiment the Canton-born professor of biochemistry and endocrinology has come closer than any man before him to explaining how the front half of the human pituitary, the body's master gland, controls so many functions through the hormones it manufactures. Because his success represents a singular medical triumph, Dr. Li last week was awarded the $10,000 Albert Lasker Basic Research Award...