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...physicians) and the National Conference of Tuberculosis Workers. Supported by sales of Christmas seals ($23 million worth last year), they have spread the gospel that TB is, in the main, a preventable disease, that no effort should be spared to detect it early, and that treatment must be prompt. But last week's conferees were in no mood to write off the job as done...
...booming courtroom voice hit the microphones so hard that electricians installed a special guard to keep his mouth at least two inches away. At first, while points of order mounted to disorder, he seemed to be waiting for the judge to stop the nonsense, not realizing that he could prompt Chairman Mundt to bang the gavel...
Scelba's reply to this journalistic contumely was prompt and pertinent. "The inconceivable insult to the Premier and Minister for Foreign Affairs in today's L'Unitá," he announced, "shows how far Italian Communism can go to act against the honor of its own government. This attack, which exceeds the limits allowed in political debate and which contains insults of unrepeatable vulgarity, has induced the Prime Minister to order that Communist newspapermen be no longer admitted to the offices of the Prime Minister or any other government ministry...
...Gubser proposals would remove the unnecessary restrictions on acceptable men. The first calls for a prompt review by the Consular officer of any temporary visa for a technological, teaching, or scientific purpose. This is aimed at doing away with the present damaging delays...
...foreign government on behalf of a private U.S. firm since the Mexican oil expropriation of 1938. Following the principle established then by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, the U.S. insisted that, though sovereign governments have the right to expropriate property, the compensation paid must be "adequate, effective and prompt." As in the Mexican case, the U.S. might accept some smaller compromise sum as "adequate." But now, as then, it had served notice that it was acting for U.S. citizens and that the matter had become one for the two governments to handle, with some kind of negotiation or arbitration...