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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tighten Up. To qualify for substantial foreign help, able Commerce Minister Alberto Ullastres (a former economics professor) flew home from a last round of conferences in Washington and Paris, to start a long list of major reforms. The government decreed that the peseta, which up until now has been subject to at least 13 different exchange rates, would be fixed at 60 to the dollar. Excused for the time being from paying $45 million in foreign debts. Spain would get an injection of $375 million in additional aid from the U.S., OEEC, the International Monetary Fund, private U.S. concerns...
Some 2,000 students found work through the Harvard Student Employment Office, which correlates requests for manpower from local firms with the students who list themselves with the office...
Without Prejudice. In Chippewa Falls, Wis., learning that her son John had been placed on a jury list. Mrs. Richard Risler informed the county jury commission that John was six weeks...
Effective Drugs. Despite admitted drawbacks, chemotherapy has won a solid foothold. Dr. Charles Gordon Zubrod, 45, NCI's clinical director, responsible for all cancer patients treated in NIH's huge Clinical Center (TIME, July 20, 1953), . lists eight forms of the disease that can often be set back by drugs, sometimes for as long as two or three years. These are: acute leukemia in children, chronic lymphocytic and myeloid leukemia in adults, Hodgkin's disease, rhabdomyosarcoma (a rare muscle cancer), Wilms's tumor (in the kidney, present at birth), cancer of the adrenal glands, and choriocarcinoma...
...wild life of the book. Even Petronius' death was artfully arranged. When palace intrigue involved him in a treason charge, he opened his veins, chatted airily with his friends, recited some light poetry; then, placing a manicured thumb to an elegant nose, he wrote out a definitive list of Nero's bed partners and sent it off to the emperor before he lay back...