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...fall issue of The Current, published by the Harvard-Radcliffe Catholic Club, is a carefully put together magazine, and the writing is anything but illiterate. It has, however, an undue fondness for the ponderous sentence, the indirect statement, the complicated construction, and the rhetorical question, which makes it very difficult to read...
Though no one has yet been able to isolate a human leukemia virus and grow it in a test tube, one indirect way of establishing its presence is to find antibody against it. In the A.M.A. Journal, Dr. Steven O. Schwartz of Chicago's Hektoen Institute and Northwestern University reported that he had found antibody, apparently against leukemia, in a dozen families. Beginning in 1957, the Chicago suburb of Niles had eight fatal cases of leukemia in children who either attended the same school or had siblings and playmates who did. There had been one other case nearby...
...British Guiana's crippling, 79-day strike, Gimpex saved the day for Jagan. When food reserves dried up and the opposition threatened to starve the government out of office, Gimpex imported petroleum products, flour and other staples, using Cuban and Russian ships. Last July Gimpex actually managed some indirect aid from Cuba. The company sold $1,000,000 worth of railroad ties to Cuba, and the money-paid in advance-was lent by Gimpex to Ja-gan's government...
...Information Service offices abroad. Soon after their return, Schine made the mistake of getting drafted as a buck private into the U.S. Army. Cohn tried to crowbar the Army into granting Schine special privileges, and out of that effort came the famed Army-McCarthy hearings. As an indirect result of those hearings, Cohn was forced to resign from his committee post and McCarthy was officially condemned by the Senate. After that, McCarthy never wielded much influence...
Unilever is the second-largest business firm outside the U.S. (after Royal Dutch/Shell) and the world's sixth largest company. Composed of two holding companies-a British half, Unilever Ltd., and a Dutch half, Unilever N. V. -Unilever controls 104 major companies, has 448 direct or indirect subsidiaries in 53 countries, and sells 1,200 different products. Some of its holdings: United Africa Group, Africa's largest trading company; Britain's 400 Mac Fisheries stores; and the U.S.'s Lever Bros., makers of Vim, Lux, and All. Unilever also owns Lipton Tea, which in turn owns...