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...root of the unrest lies Italy's chronic inflation - a problem which Premier Aldo Moro's Socialist-Christian Democratic coalition government has had a hard time handling. Moro is due to visit Washington this week, but if things go on as they have been, he may find the whole country on strike when he returns. Sophisticated Romans shrugged it all off as just another piquant manifestation of life in Italy today. Not Milan's Corriere della Sera, which warned that the strike wave of 1919-22 "exasperated the population and was a cause - far from secondary...
Only half a dozen patients have been treated so far in each center. White blood cell counts, which soar as high as 200,000 per cubic millimeter in leukemia, have dropped to around 8,000#151;within the normal range. Patients with some of the chronic forms of leukemia have maintained their improvement for as long as nine months after treatment. Benefit in acute leukemia has been much shorter, but all the patients have been adults, in whom the chronic forms of the disease are more common...
...American steamship lines dock in U.S. ports. By contrast, nearly 100 railroads -the greatest conglomeration anywhere in the world-compete unevenly over 214,000 miles of Class I track, both among themselves and with a growing number of trucks, buses, automobiles and barges. The result is massive inefficiency and chronic headaches for the U.S. railroad industry, which has failed to keep pace with the vast changes in public transportation...
...amendments. Among them: agrarian reform, a complete income-tax overhaul, and a law revamping the banking system. The national budget has been cut by 30%. The cruzeiro currency, once skyrocketing toward its namesake Southern Cross, has started to level off, and the cost-of-living increase, Brazil's chronic bugaboo, has declined by 19% in the past year. The U.S. has put up $450 million in aid, while other lenders have chipped in another $300 million...
...Dailey lost-but his seemingly preposterous suit was no surprise in the strange world of admiralty law. Before he got off the hook, Dailey's employer had to fight up to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and prove that the seaman had been AWOL and was a chronic alcoholic to boot...