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...beetling cliffs between Sáo Paulo and the port of Santos. A coffee boom followed, and for 50 years or so, coffee was the life blood of Sáo Paulo. The state of Sáo Paulo still has more than a billion coffee trees, one-fourth of the world's total, but its coffee land is playing out; the nearest big plantation is now two hours' drive from the capital...
...National Multiple Sclerosis Society has now summed up five years of fund-raising and fact-finding on the mysterious crippler. Of $813,000 raised, one-fourth has been used to educate both doctors and laymen in the ways of multiple sclerosis; $388,000 has gone into research. So far, nobody knows what causes the nerve sheaths in the spine and brain to degenerate, so that nerves become useless. But Manhattan's Neurological Institute is working on the possibility of an allergic origin for the disease; Tulane University is checking the viruses as possible culprits...
...compile the inventory, two psychologists-H. H. Remmers of Purdue University and Robert H. Bauernfeind of Carleton College-questioned 6,000 school kids on every sort of problem from "I have to go to bed too early" to "I hit my sister." One-fourth of the children, they found, are chronic hypochondriacs, worried about all sorts of aches and pains (e.g., "I have a thumping . . ." "Sometimes I get real dizzy"). And almost as many are worried because "I am not nice-looking...
Married. Ralph Branca, 25, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, who last month threw the home-run ball that gave the Giants the National League pennant; and Ann Mulvey, 20, daughter of James A. Mulvey, one-fourth owner of the Dodgers; in Brooklyn...
Sales have jumped so high in the past fortnight that Ford dealers have only one-fourth of their normal supply, lowest in the company's history. Cadillac has orders for the next nine months' output; Plymouth has an average of only three cars a dealer, Oldsmobile 3.5, and Buick 3. Instead of waiting for Big Three models, many customers are buying from Nash, Studebaker and Hudson, whose sales are up as much as 47%. Even used-car dealers have begun to feel the change. Automen do not expect the sellers' market to ease up. They expect...