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...flights. Lu mumba instead asked the U.N. for help, and hinted darkly that unless he got it, the Congo would appeal to Communist China. No one in the Congolese government asked Belgium for anything, but Brussels moved swiftly in response to the cries of its beleaguered citizens. Para troops and commando units fanned out from the big Belgian military bases at Kamina and Kitona; planeloads of home troops were rushed to the Congo from Belgium...
...striking drop in TB mortality in the last few years (to about 12,000 in 1959) has been brought about by treatment with one or more of three wonder drugs: streptomycin (1944), para-amino-salicylic acid or PAS (1944) and isoniazid (1951). Eradication of the disease depends on full use of drugs, following aggressive case finding. There are now 400,000 known TB victims in the U.S. (150,000 with active disease), and an estimated additional 400,000 who have escaped detection...
...promise of considerably strengthening the Republican Party. Said Rocky in his withdrawal statement: "I am a Republican-seriously concerned about the future vigor and purpose of my party ... In this spirit I expect to support the nominees, as well as the pro gram, of the party in 1960." One para mount party problem in the 1960 cam paign will be to convince independents that Nixon is a modern Republican and not the pawn of the Old Guard right wing, as the Democrats gleefully charge (although Californian Nixon was, in fact, a modern Republican before Eisenhower was a candidate or before...
Chemical Screen. Popular suntan lotions and creams increase tolerance to light rays by factors of four to six, said Dr. Knox. A cream containing one of the best chemical screens known, para-amino-benzoic acid, will increase it a hundredfold. So .will the newest chemical sunscreen family, the benzophenones. Trouble with benzophenones is that they absorb all rays at the spectrum's blue end-including those needed for a fashionable tan. So Dr. Knox suggested that redheads and others with exceptionally fair skins who do not want to freckle use a shutout benzophenone preparation. Others less sensitive...
Wayward Bus Boy. In Boston another classified ad in the Herald called attention to a "BUS BOY. sober, wants work. Conscientious, rapid, accurate, honest, neat. Talk with Para-Psychologist. Like work-Cycle. Worked Sky-View Restaurant . . . Discharged for eating pie, ice cream...