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...spleen transplant between mother and son. The boy, Richard Hill, suffered from a shortage of gamma globulin in his blood, leaving him virtually defenseless against infectious diseases. This shortage arose largely from the failure of his spleen to produce enough of the antibodies that make up an important fraction of gamma globulin. The boy's mother, Mrs. Jacqueline Carver, had a good supply of gamma globulin, and her lymphatic system would maintain it. She could get along without her spleen far better than her son. The operations were performed in June, and the boy has been getting doses...
...basic fact about Latin America is not that the people are excluded from politics but that they are excluded from the economy. A legacy of the Spanish colonial land-holding system, only a tiny fraction of the population share in any form of economic life above subsistence. Prices reflect this stratification. While commodities such as food and clothes are more expensive than in the United States, services are cheap--a maid gets paid $20 a month. Over 30 per cent of the population is unemployed...
...teacher colleges that give no university degrees-a coveted badge of social distinction. In 1962, says Sir Eric Ashby, master of Clare College, Cambridge, "we selected about 33,000 young people to go to universities out of an age group of some 700,000. This represents only a fraction of the pool of high ability in Britain...
...wheat sale seemed like a good idea. It would cut the nation's 1.2 billion-bushel wheat surplus-if only by 75 million or 100 million bushels. It would narrow the U.S.'s $5 billion deficit in the balance of payments-if only by a small fraction. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, an opponent of any deal with the Reds, was for this one. So was Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges. So were Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman J. William Fulbright, Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Allen Ellender and House Agriculture Committee Chairman Harold Cooley. Even Barry Goldwater told...
...time trials to decide starting positions. A gasp went up when the announcer gave his speed: an average of 109 m.p.h. for the short one-mile track, almost 3 m.p.h. better than the fastest ever posted by an Offy at Trenton. Then came Clark, just a fraction faster to set still another record...