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...time or another. It broke the spirit as well as the body. "People with malaria just don't care," says Gabaldón. "They don't even care if you treat them." As a Rockefeller Foundation fellow in protozoology, Gabaldón had learned that the chronic malarial "lose even the desire to procreate." Gabaldón decided...
Peru's coast is a brown billowing desert,* broken here & there by tiny green valleys which poorly support half the country's population. The towering Andes effectively bar the transportation of foodstuffs from the fertile eastern region. Because of the chronic food shortage, the Ministry of Agriculture is the hottest seat in the Peruvian cabinet. In January, the Apristas gladly turned the post over to a chubby, genial landowner named Pedro Venture, later denounced him for failing to provide food for the people. Replied Venture: "I cannot offer you miracles...
What they have done helps immeasurably in relieving one of the chronic features of the University's semi-annual publication-its brevity. Always, the excuse for the large number of completely in adequate course descriptions (title, lecturer, day, time, and nothing else) has beene the catalogue's slim budget and the rigid schedule of space limitations for individual departments. In fact, the course summaries that this new pamphlet includes were originally intended for the latest edition of the catalogue, but were crowded out by the space shortage...
...Manhattan, the Home for Incurables changed its name to St. Barnabas Hospital for Chronic Diseases...
...getting Jess Larson, 42, until recently general counsel for the agency, to take over when Littlejohn leaves this week. Swarthy, affable Jess Larson, ex-mayor of Chickasha, Okla., and a colonel in World War II, is expected to strengthen at least one major weakness in the Littlejohn regime-a chronic friction with Congress...