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...most socialized country in the Western Hemisphere is the Central American Republic of Guatemala. It is also one of the few Latin American republics (according to New York Timesman W. H. Lawrence-TIME, Jan. 13) without a formal Communist party. Guatemala's socialism started by accident of war. Today one-third of its agricultural produce is grown on land operated by the Government. The land-comprising one-fourth of the country's best plantations-fell under state control when the Government expropriated the German plantations...
...investigation's long-range aim: to isolate the cold virus and develop a vaccine. Each guest, on admission, snuffs a fluid up his nose. About 45%, used as controls, snuff only a harmless broth; the rest get virus-containing nasal washings from people with colds. Only about one-fourth of all the subjects actually come down with colds. Thus far, the doctors have no important new findings to report, but they think they have definitely established that wet feet, exposure to cold, etc. do not necessarily cause colds. The mischief is done by sneezers...
...awfully nice" to get picked, offered a partial explanation of her success: "I have a tall, skinny frame that clothes look well on." She wears no hats. She's a "great believer in simplicity in clothes," she said, and figured that in '46 she spent about one-fourth as much on her wardrobe as any of the other best-dressed-at the most, $10,000 (not counting furs and jewels...
...City, 1,000 teachers in the past school year have left because they didn't get paid enough. A group called the New York City Teachers' Interest Committee polled 3,500 of the teachers who stayed on the job, discovered that three-fourths of the men and one-fourth of the women were doing sideline work to get along. Last week, at a meeting of the Teachers' Interest Committee, war veteran Philip Lynch, 33, who is a junior high school teacher of the social sciences, explained why he had taken an after-hours job. Said...
Asahi has 26 photographers, keeps six reporters at Tokyo police headquarters, sends a task force of 40 to cover a session of the Japanese Diet. About one-fourth of Asahi's reporters sometimes go a week at a time without breaking into print. Even so, Asahi thinks it needs more reporters for the day paper gets more plentiful, has scheduled September exams to pick them...