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International Incident. To avoid serious clashes, Britain, Argentina and Chile signed an agreement in 1949 to refrain from sending warships south of the 60th parallel. Last month a Foreign Office spokesman in London issued a warning that Britain might be forced to disregard the three-nation pact if "incidents" kept occurring in Antarctica. The point was that the General San Martin's new base not only lay well within Britain's claimed slice of Antarctica but was near the announced starting point of a planned British-New Zealand attempt to make the first overland trek across the antarctic...
...Only last week I was asked to see a girl of ten, scarcely into adolescence, who was wearing miniature falsies and was already the subject of a bosom inferiority complex ... As physicians we must under no circumstances disregard the psychic-I might even say the psychotic-influence of such matters upon our youngsters. It can be exceedingly serious. Recently in my own practice I had one attempted suicide and several rather serious and total derangements contingent upon real or fancied breast irregularities...
...phone bill: some $22 million last year). In one recent test an air general at the Colorado headquarters picked up a hot phone to call Pentagon Command Post. In exactly three seconds came the reply from Washington: "Pentagon Command Post." "This is a communications check," the general said. "Please disregard." Canada headquarters answered in 5 seconds, Newfoundland in 10, Alaska in 15. (For some pictures of U.S. Air Defense Command installations in Alaska, see NEWS IN PICTURES...
...Filho has already shown a magnificent disregard for personal popularity. Determined to plug all possible dollar-exchange leaks, he angered federal Senators and Deputies by canceling their highly prized privilege of bringing a new car into the country every few years. Determined to hold down expenditures, he vetoed a bill to raise the pay of government doctors, stuck to his decision, though the doctors threatened a nationwide strike...
...college will disregard a precedent in granting the degree. Lawrence does not make a practice of awarding honorary degrees to people who have already received them from other colleges. Pusey has already received six such degrees...