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...minute equipment. To fly fine 325-m.p.h. Super-H Constellations, Real's chief pilots get $900 a month, only about half what a U.S. captain makes for the same job. Nicaragua's tiny Lanica line recently put a pair of turboprop Viscounts on its Miami-Lima service...
...theory in the U.S. came when he got the commission to draw the plans for the $19 million Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital and Stanford Medical Center. From his experience in designing the just completed $20 million Social Security Hospital for Employees (one of the world's largest) in Lima, Peru and his University of Arkansas Medical Center (which won an American Institute of Architects Honor Award in 1952), Stone knew a hospital is "the toughest problem in architecture. It's as if every room were either a kitchen, a bath, or a boiler room. It is not something...
...dawn one day last week, in the Lima Maternity Hospital, Hilda Trujillo gave birth to a daughter weighing a trifle over six pounds. The mother took no anesthetic, and the five-hour labor was entirely normal; so was the child, except that it was perhaps a month premature. Not normal: the mother's age. She was herself a child of nine years, seven months, 28 days. Only a few months ago she wore white cardboard wings and played an angel in the third-grade play at school...
Last week Hilda's case rekindled interest in Lina. Now 24, short, stocky and reclusive, she works as a secretary in the Lima clinic of Dr. Gerardo Lozada, the doctor who performed her Caesarean. Lozada gave her an education, is now putting her son through high school, reports: "Lina's boy is normal and intelligent. He wants to take up electronics...
Silence hung like a damp rag over the bar; George impaled one lima bean on a toothpick and examined...