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...hardly finished speaking when Buenos Aires' attentive police whooped into action. Five fishmongers were fined 5,000 pesos ($352) apiece and whisked off to Villa Devoto for 30 days. Next day, 20 butchers followed them, after shelling out 30,000 pesos each in fines. Miguel Gamboa, director general of prices and supplies, called to his office 800 other butchers and warned that new lists of ceiling prices would be enforced...
...chief of P.R.I., Mexico's largest party, had an idea: the heroes of the Mexican Revolution, though dead, might be made to contribute to national unity and, incidentally, to P.R.I, prestige. Dr. Rafael Pascacio Gamboa's suggestion: disinter the bodies of Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Alvaro ObregÓn, rebury them with full and traditional pomp in a crypt beneath the Monument to the Revolution...
...Universal, commenting tartly on Gamboa's proposal, reported that it had left "an excellent impression . . . above all among funeral agencies, which would be charged with so patriotic and urgent a task...
Paralleling modern technological improvements, Nature too is speeding up. A Canadian lad has grown his fourth set of teeth at the age of twelve, and tulips are up already in Buffalo, New York. Science marches, on, and one Dr. Gamboa has discovered that the strength of a woman's handshake increases when she is pregnant. God knows...