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...Fever & Profits. In meetings and panel discussions the delegates heard some frank talk from both sides of the border. Pulling no punches, Alberto Lleras Camargo, onetime President of Colombia, told U.S. businessmen flatly that they expect too much. Said he: Let's not waste time arguing about the need for stability. "For over 300 years there was more stability than was good for human nature." Latin America, said Lleras Camargo, is having its industrial and cultural revolution all in a rush; it can either develop under government control or through imaginative private investment. "Is such a spirit lacking...
...This is the most wonderful time we've had since the last royal cremation." exclaimed a happy Siamese building contractor as he gazed about him in Bangkok last week. Thailand's carefree, colorful capital was in an unaccustomed fever of activity. On every side, under a blazing tropical sun, builders, bricklayers, tile setters, linemen, street sweepers and landscape gardeners were laboring, at a cost of perhaps $2,000,000, to ready their city for the arrival of the great men of SEATO (see above). The government of soft-spoken Strongman Marshal Phi-bun Songram, warm advocate...
...Known cases of hepatitis (a liver infection accompanied by fever and jaundice) have tripled in the U.S. since 1952, reported the U.S. Public Health Service. The ailment now ranks fifth (behind measles, VD, scarlet fever and streptococcal sore throat, and TB) in prevalence among communicable diseases; last year 49,722 cases were reported (up nearly 50% from 1953). Present standard treatment: rest and a highprotein, liquor-free diet...
Across Mexico's Isthmus of Tehuantepec swept a boom fever as intoxicating as tequila. In the tiny coastal towns of Minatitlán and Coatzacoalcos. Mexicans with bulging bankrolls were spending them on refrigerators, Mixmasters, and dozens of other items they could only dream about a few years ago. Slapdash buildings were going up everywhere; Minatitlán's newest hotel opened for business before it was even finished, a second bank went up, honky-tonk bars and gambling joints were busy 24 hours a day. Cause of it all: sulphur, an element far more valuable to industry...
...uranium fever spread, geological consulting offices opened up in several Texas panhandle towns, lease prices soared from $1 to $10 an acre, and papers started running tips for prospectors. Exasperated Texas ranchers, whose tempers have worn thin as prospectors tramped across their land, pressured Texas state legislators to pass a bill giving them more protection against the invasion. Said Chairman William Mather of the Minerals Technology Department of San Antonio's Southwest Research Institute: "Uranium is more widely distributed than anyone thought only a few years ago. The problem now isn't to locate...