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Jumping Professors. Understandably, the astrologers were loath to discuss their boom. Said a Chicago seeress: "If I say anything about business, those professors will jump on us again." But they eagerly claimed that astrology ("the study of life's reactions to planetary vibrations") was a science that should be taught in U.S. colleges. Some stepped right up to write 1946's news stories in advance releases-a practice that was old in 1640, when William Lilly, the "English Merlin" (see cut) fascinated Parliament with his political predictions...
Last month the U.S. had said again that it would sign no military treaty with a Perón-bossed Argentina. Now, after reading the election returns, the other American republics (19) were loath to sacrifice hemispheric unity (and Perón's favor) and sign any sort of treaty without the Argentines...
Civilian hospitals and doctors are loath to cooperate, for a very good reason: they hate to lose their help. They will sometimes even go so far as to give a nurse a bad report in order to hang onto her. Civilian nurses, admitting that few of them are downright eager to join, turned their sharpest words on the Army Nurse Corps. Complaints from nurses in the Corps, they said, are enough to cool their ardor. Some of these complaints are just normal gripes: U.S. women hate to be ordered around, particularly by other women; homesick Army nurses may exaggerate their...
...Government's star witness: Shake down Expert Willie Bioff, who was let out of jail to sing on his ex-chums. Dapper, wily Willie, nothing loath, sat calmly in a swivel-chair, hands clasped meditatively over his stomach - and sang...
Since rice is the world's No. 1 grain (in the number of people it feeds), the Huzenlaub process may well prove to be one of the most important food discoveries in years. The U.S. rice-milling industry, still loath to accept it, has denied Harwell's firm membership in the Rice Millers' Association, claims that the new process is no better than several others by which milled rice is impregnated with vitamins. But millers in 36 countries are now licensed to use the Huzenlaub process. Only country turned down so far: Japan...