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SUPER SABRE (F-100), grounded since November after three mysterious crashes within a month (TIME, Nov. 22), is now back in the air. Tests showed that the 800 m.p.h. North American fighter, on which the Air Force is spending $100 million, needed a new vertical tail and changes in the control system...
...Janeiro, Physiologist João de Souza Campos, Biochemist Roched Seba and Botanist Geraldo Kulman reported the discovery of a native substitute for India's so-called "miracle plant," rauwolfia serpentina, which has proved highly effective (in drug form) in treating high blood pressure and nervous disorders (TIME, Nov. 8). Drugs made from the new plant, rauwolfia sellowi, act on the nervous system like their Indian counterparts, but with a lower toxic effect...
Carmen Jones. Red-hot and black Carmen, with Dorothy Dandridge putting the torch to Bizet's babe (TIME, Nov...
...Italy's Montecatini and Gulf Oil Corp.) with oil at 2,200 ft. in the Abruzzi area 85 miles northeast of Rome, first find in the district. The new well is a big victory for private oilmen in their fight against Italy's state-owned A.G.I.P. (TIME, Nov. 29); the state company had previously explored the area for oil and failed to find a drop...
Actually, as in many cases before, Winchell's news was hardly new. Pantepec had announced its discovery on Nov. 24. The New York Times had already printed a note about it without affecting the market notably. But the week before Winchell's tip, heavy buying, reportedly in Florida, pushed Pantepec's stock volume from 32.000 shares to 174,800, boosted prices from 5½ to 6¾. The Monday following Winchell's broadcast Pantepec sold an alltime record 357,500 shares, at 8⅞, up more than two points. Soon after, Pantepec started dropping...