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Neumaticos Para Turistas? The New York Times printed startling news from Laredo, Tex.: "American tourists visiting Mexico can obtain all of the automobile tires they need...
...Para-aminobenzoic acid reputedly turns grey hair dark again-but it raises blood pressure and, if sulfa drugs are given, it combats their curative powers. Another vitamin, pyridoxine, turns hair grey-but it is essential for red blood cells and digestion...
...However, several biochemists last week reported that prematurely grey hair can be warded off and even darkened again by para-amino-benzoic acid, a member of the vitamin B complex...
...later President Vargas gave his scissors another threatening click. The Government-owned Port of Para Corp. took over the local Condor agency, bringing all commercial flying in the Amazon region under administration control...
Under the heading "Dithyrambic With Key" El Pampero had printed a harmless lampoon of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. But the first letter of each line, joined in descending order, spelled out the less harmless acrostic: Hay que ser inglés para ser hijo de puta (One must be English to be a son of a whore). Within 72 hours Osés was indicted for obscenity and the trial date set. That night, on the fashionable Calle Florida, youthful mem bers of the newly formed, patriotic Action Argentina patrolled the sidewalks, seized and burned copies of El Pampero...