Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Illía's election seemed to confirm that for Argentina in the near future the worst was over. Foreign commerce is picking up, the peso is rallying, and the cost-of-living curve is flattening...
When he dons the sash of office Oct. 12, Illía promises an Argentina-first policy, renegotiating the contro versial foreign oil contracts made by Frondizi (see WORLD BUSINESS) and re-examining Argentina's monetary poli cies, now closely hewing to the austere line of the International Monetary Fund...
Chicago was suffering a deadly midsummer blight. By last week 14 slum children from one to five years old, more than half of them Negroes, were dead of lead poisoning. And of more than 40 others who had been seriously ill, most would be left with permanent brain damage. Ironically, Chicago has long had as rigorous a program for the prevention, detection and treatment of lead poisoning as any city in the U.S., and is now making it still more strict...
Even children with the unnatural appetite known as "pica," who eat just about anything they can get their hands on (TIME, Oct. 12), do not chew enough lead to make them ill immediately. In most children it simply accumulates in their bones. But summer sunshine on their skins sets off biochemical changes in their systems-for one thing, it boosts their supply of vitamin D. Summer is also a time of growth spurts, when the development of new bone calls for a fast turnover of calcium-and lead rides alongside the calcium into the bloodstream, to attack the nervous system...
...jury panel was called, and twenty two men stood up and filtered to the front of the room, some in overalls, most in ill-fitting dungarees or khaki pants. The last two men called were Negroes, and as their steps could be heard clambering down from the buzzards' roost, the people in the audience turned to one another with smiles. The strategy was clever; they intended to call one Negro for each twelve whites so as to vitiate the constitutional objection to the selection of jurors. There was no chance to test the tactic, because the defense had used...