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Maternity Clinic. Cantinflas will not say, but friends estimate that he doles out nearly $175,000 a year. Each morning, when he is in Mexico City, long lines of people queue up at his door. He reads some 500 letters a month asking for help, and often replies with a check. He is one of Mexico's biggest contributors to the Roman Catholic Church and its charities, and when hurricane, flood or pestilence hits any part of the country, Cantinflas is always one of the first contributors...
...date, and a good bit of it has gone to make life easier for the ranch hands and peasants in the surrounding countryside. He tripled the wages of his workers (to 12 pesos daily), built a church and model homes for his 50-man ranch crew, added a maternity clinic. Treatment is free to all local campesinos. Abuilding at La Purisima are a 70-pupil school and a drugstore where his workers will get medicines free of charge and local peasants can buy at wholesale prices...
Soviet Psychiatrist Isaac Goldberg could well understand his colleagues' doubts, but he insisted that he really did have an epileptic patient who could read ordinary print with her fingertips. To prove it, he had Rosa Kuleshova, 22, admitted to the Sverdlov Clinic for Nervous Disorders. There before a skeptical audience, Dr. Goldberg blindfolded Rosa and had the blindfold checked. Then Rosa opened a book at random, passed the fingertips of her right hand lightly over the page, and fluently read the text aloud. She did the same with a newspaper. Handed a snapshot, Rosa stroked the surface and said...
Leighton is still active as chairman of the youth division of the Cambridge YMCA, vice president of the board of trustees of the Judge Bake Guidance Clinic (one of the country's leading child behavior labs), a member of the Harvard Athletic Committee, and acting chairman of the Phillips Brooke House Association Committee...
...Birmingham. On blueprints or in the works are a new $400,000 municipal building, two fire stations, a bank, an office building, a post office, a bridge, a $3,700,000 sewer program. New schools have shot up. 20 miles of dirt streets have been paved, a health clinic building has been opened, as well as a golf club and the shopping center...