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...chose to address the assembly on the problems of promoting the economic growth of poor nations, rather than on East-West issues. He rejected a Third World proposal for a massive shift of wealth from rich nations to poor nations as "unrealistic" and emphasized private investment as a potential cure for poverty. The solution did not sit well with many of his listeners...
Ironically, Kamali once looked with contempt at her present trade. "I thought being a designer was the most superficial goal anyone could have," she says. "It's not like finding a cure for cancer, or being an artist." A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology in 1964, Norma Ar-raez's real goal was to be a painter. But not a starving one. So instead she started out as a fashion illustrator. Wanderlust struck in 1966, however, and she joined an airline as a reservations clerk. On trips abroad, she always stopped in London to pick...
...warning was prophetic. The number of cases quickly mounted. No cure was at hand. Rumors of its causes swept the country, particularly in Spain's Old Castile and other central provinces, where the outbreak was most severe. At one point, it was reported that strawberries and green vegetables might be responsible. Sales of asparagus and strawberries plummeted, and thousands of pounds of both had to be destroyed. Other rumors blamed birds, dogs and cats for the contamination, and frantic families put hundreds of pets to death. Because the first cases were reported near the U.S. airbase at Torrejon...
...official of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control who has been monitoring the search for a cause-and possibly a cure-admits that epidemiologists are still in the dark. Said Dr. Peter Patriarca: "To our knowledge, an illness like this has never been associated with cooking oil or, for that matter, with any kind of food. Some chemicals found in these oils should not be there, but they've never been connected with an illness like this. There is something else that we just can't pin down, and as long as we don't know...
...cure whatever ails...