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...Communist" plot. No doubt the Communists would like to overthrow the man who let Guatemala be used as a base for last year's Cuban invasion. But the Reds are by no means the only ones fed up with Ydigoras. Because of organized graft that flourishes like a fungus, the majority of Guatemala's business and professional community has long been bitterly disgusted. Corruption chokes the inflow of capital to a trickle. Anyone wanting to invest in Guatemala faces a maze of red tape that, in many cases, can be cut only by a mordida, or bribe...
...Foggmen had taken extraordinary pains with these. To produce the two forgeries, they made a printed facsimile of the original. They then went over the reproductions with charcoal, smudging a bit here, rubbing a bit there. They went over the signatures in pencil, even reproduced two tiny fungus growths that appeared in the original. As a final touch, they placed one of the forgeries in the handsome frame and mat belonging to the original...
Because of the foresight of leaders like Cobo and Miriani, our city progress is emerging from stagnation to acceleration. Come and see for yourself-there's no fungus among...
Creeping Blight. Here and there in Detroit are hopeful eddies. Wayne State University is defiantly building a modern campus right in the heart of the city. But blight is creeping like a fungus through many of Detroit's proud, old neighborhoods. Vast areas have been leveled for redevelopment projects that have not materialized. Down on the waterfront, the city's $70 million Cobo Convention Hall and Arena is not attracting the anticipated crowds of fast-spending conventioneers, this year failed to meet expenses...
...began to attend classes in the junior high school building, where the school bus parking lot and the playground were shaded by the trees. In the bare soil beneath the trees. Dr. Dodge found His to plasma fungi galore. Kids scuffing through the lot kicked up dust containing the fungus' spores, which, when inhaled, caused the infections. The dust and spores were also sucked in by the air intake of the school's ventilating system...