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...Streptothricin protects mice against 10,000 times the ordinary lethal dose of Salmonella schottmülleri (paratyphoid fever organism), Escherichia coli (colon bacillus) and Bacterium shigae (cause of Shiga dysentery). The drug's usefulness against typhoid bacteria has not yet been tested in mice, but it is effective against test-tube typhoid...
...simple method the researchers have made vaccines against the colon bacillus, Salmonella enteritidis, Staphylococcus aureus (boils, septicemia, etc.), one type of pneumonia, one streptococcus, St. Louis encephalitis (sleeping sickness) virus, rabies virus. Tests on other germs, and vaccine trials during human epidemics, are yet to come...
Notices had gone out that stocky, greying Monsignor Miguel de Andrea, Argentina's popular Bishop of Temnos, would open the meeting of the National Academy of Moral Sciences and Politics in Buenos Aires' plush Teatro Colon. Then everyone remembered that Monsignor Andrea was a liberal; in his youth he had even led a fisherman's strike. Like a pampas fire, word spread that the Bishop would discourse on liberty and the people's right to elect their own authorities...
...Teatro Colon's ticket office was swamped. Rumor galloped across the capital, cantered into the chambers of President Pedro Ramirez's reactionary nationalist Cabinet. Promptly the Government canceled the Academy's meeting. People on the street nodded knowingly, as if to say, "They feared to let him speak." Suddenly on the newsstands appeared red-&-black booklets containing the Bishop's unspoken address. Crowds snapped them...
...Signed May 18, the agreement legalized the status of the U.S. air base at Rio Hato; granted the U.S. other bases' within Panama; allowed U.S. use of adjacent waters. In return, the U.S. gives over building lots worth $11,500,000 in Colon and Panama City; delivers American-built water and sewer systems in the two cities; pays off $2,700,000 of Panama indebtedness incurred in building a highway to Rio Hato...