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...childhood's most troublesome ailments, discovering that minuscule doses of highly poisonous atropine would curb colic among infants (it is now also used by ulcer patients), and that a year-long diet of bananas would completely rehabilitate sufferers from celiac disease, which causes such acute diarrhea that one-fourth of its victims used to die from malnutrition; in Orange...
...people of Uruguay voted to have a nine-man council instead of a President, and everyone cried hooray. Even though they didn't always agree, the council members tried hard to get along, and the land, which was already very welfare-minded, became even more so. One-fourth of all the workers got jobs with the government at which they worked only half a day; and for every 2½ people working, there was one who had retired at 45, sometimes with full pay. It was wonderful. The people didn't worry because they had all those benefits...
...fire-control officer) plane, for example, can fly from Minneapolis to the northern tip of Hudson's Bay in an hour, and still have enough fuel to return to base. On target, the A11 is all killer, can make a second pass at an enemy bomber in one-fourth the time needed by a more maneuverable but slower F-106. Plans are now to use the plane for an assault on the Russian-held world speed record (1,665.89 m.p.h.), and the big black bird has already been redesignated the YF-12A (Y for prototype, F for fighter), which...
...agents tried to discover and analyze every step that Oswald took during a curious trip to Mexico exactly one year ago. They questioned the drivers of the buses that Oswald rode to Mexico and back, and rounded up practically every passenger who had traveled with him. They spoke to waitresses at a restaurant where he often ate, to clerks and maids in the cheap Hotel del Comercio where he stayed. But with all that, the Commission could account for only one-fourth to one-half of Oswald's time in Mexico...
...AGRARIAN REFORM. Since 1958, López Mateos has deeded peasants nearly 40 million acres of land-fully one-fourth of all the acreage thus far doled out under the country's 50-year-old agrarian reform...