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...added that the University has just received a new supply of influenza vaccine, and recommended that persons over 45 and sufferers from chronic heart or lung trouble be especially sure to get flu shots...
...World Bank has few fears about its investments in Latin America, other investors have plenty. Political instability and chronic inflation have frightened U.S. investors to the point that in the first nine months of 1962 there was a $37 million net withdrawal of private U.S. capital v. a $144 million net inflow...
...undefeated season, were some what surprised when the team faltered in mid-season and had to scramble for a tie for the Ivy League championship. Bothered by injuries and perhaps a touch of overconfidence, the squad failed to live up to all its press notices. Chris Ohiri, whose chronic leg ailment cost coach Bruce Munro hours of sleep, did manage, however, to set a new Harvard career record for goals scored with...
...both males and females may have an extra female sex chromosome. And this in turn may have surprising importance in mental deficiency, in which sex-chromosome abnormalities are now being detected more often. The cell studies are also tied in with some forms of cancer, especially a form of chronic leukemia...
...year ago, in a moment of New Year's euphoria, President Kennedy predicted that the chronic deficit in the U.S. balance of payments could be cut from $2.5 billion in 1961 to $1.5 billion in 1962-and might well be eliminated altogether in 1963. Last week the Administration ruefully faced the realization that the nation will show a payments deficit of at least $1.9 billion for 1962, and that there is no chance for balance until 1964 at the earliest...