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...time yellow jack was lurking in the jungles. The dread mosquito carriers spread yellow fever from animal to animal, and from animals to the few men who ventured deep into the forests. The doctors and engineers who cleaned up the cities and labor camps of Panama never suppressed the guerrillas in the jungle...
Last week the Pan American Sanitary Bureau had to admit that the experts still do not know how to stamp out jungle yellow fever, though they are learning more & more about it. It is the same disease that Gorgas fought: only the carrier mosquito is different. The only way to check it is by vaccination. Any farmer, woodcutter or orchid hunter going to town for a weekend with the virus in his blood may start an epidemic among people who have not been inoculated...
...commandant held a lottery and assigned each Huk family a house on a 2,000-sq. ft. lot and a 15-to 25-acre parcel of farm land. There were difficulties: the Huks had no money; the women did not have enough cooking utensils; there was little bedding, no mosquito nets to ward off the malaria-bearing anophele, no electric wiring in the houses. Bustling Secretary Magsaysay promptly chewed out the commander. "I promised these settlers electric lights," he roared. "If there's anything I hate it's being unable to keep my word...
Last week, as the second batch of 100 Huk settlers reached Mindanao, the camp had electric lights. It also had plenty of pots & pans, plates, spoons, forks, bedding, cigarettes, mosquito nets, a radio-phonograph with the latest U.S. records, a new commander...
...last week, brunette, green-eyed Rebel Randall (who was born Alaine Brandes 29 years ago in Chicago) was a top radio and pin-up attraction on such far-flung military networks as the Mosquito (Guadalcanal), the Far Eastern (Japan and Korea), the Jungle (New Guinea) and the Bedside (military hospitals). Her five-day-a-week show is beamed to more than two million members of the armed forces and some 80 million foreign listeners-in. She gets 1,000 letters a month from G.l.s, asking for pinups, making requests for favorite records and offering her everything from marriage to captured...