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RALPH PARKMAN San Gabriel, Calif...
...studied a report on silicosis in South African mines. For Pedro Aguayo he won a 4,900-peso verdict. A week later he had 3,000 more such cases. A week after that he had a brand-new car. By month's end he and his partner-chubby Gabriel Ramos Milland, now a senator-had 16,000 cases. They got 25% of all judgments, figured half of that clear profit...
...London one day in 1861 Poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his great friend, Poet Algernon Swinburne, rummaging through the penny book box at Bookseller Quaritch's, made a sensational "find" - the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam rendered into English by an anonymous translator. "Next day," Swinburne reported crossly, "when we returned for more [copies], the price was raised to the iniquitous and exorbitant sum of twopence. You should have heard . . . the . . . impressive severity of Gabriel's humorous expostulations with [Mr. Quaritch], on behalf of a defrauded if limited public...
When Communists' votes helped President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla into office last November, he paid off with three Cabinet posts-the first for the comrades in South America. Of the three, Agriculture pleased the party most. The wretched lot of Chile's 500,000 landless campesinos invites Communism. For a day's work, the average field hand gets 35?, a large piece of hard bread, and, occasionally, a sack of beans. His home (on most farms) is a small, windowless, mud-&-thatch hut, with a dirt floor...
...meant that the president, in spite of his high-sounding title, was actually under the thumb of the U.S. executive director, who, because of the huge U.S. investment in the Bank, controls the biggest bloc of votes on the board. And the U.S. executive director was bossy, ambitious Emilio Gabriel Collado, 36, longtime New Deal economist. Many bankers feared that Collado was likely to put too heavy an emphasis on the political instead of financial merits of loans...