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...more of their rights. Recently vandals, protected by Perón's police, burned Buenos Aires' famed old Jockey Club and destroyed priceless art treasures. Some of the club members demanded that the club close down its race track in protest. Cooler heads argued that this might prompt the government to nationalize horse racing. As a result, the board of directors adopted a "realistic" position, trooped dutifully off to assure the Minister of Interior that the club would not close its track. Last week Perón's Congress nationalized horse racing...
With one of the volunteer's arms bared and a rubber tube wrapped tight around it, a technician slipped a needle into a vein and drew out 5 cc of blood. The donor's name and address were noted and he was promised a prompt report by mail. Of the first day's 415 samples, 388 were negative; the rest were positive or doubtful. To each of these 27 subjects went a letter asking him to return for further testing or to see his own doctor and have him send the Health Department a report. After...
...Orleans' Mayor Morrison, whose police department was under fire, sided with the TP, whacked the Item for its "scheme ... for the obvious purpose of attempting to produce a scandal." But the Item had the last word. The police department fired Patrolman Brackman for failing to make a prompt report of the bribe offer. And last week the bar-brothel where the baby had been found lost its liquor license. Crowed Tommy Stern's Item: "The Picayune complained . . . that the revenue department investigation 'benefited the Item to the exclusion of other media of public expression.' Cleared...
...Prompt Printer. The Verifax, an office photographic duplicating machine that can run off three or more copies of a letter at a cost of less than 5? each, was announced by Eastman Kodak Co. One copy, printed on the machine's stencil and inserted in its developing chamber, can be processed in 50 seconds, three more copies in ten more seconds. Price of the Verifax...
...Just as important, is the establishment of a predictive correlation between the severity of the anxiety in the first stage, and the severity of the clinical stage. Such a development would afford a means for quick and efficient diagnosis of radiation sickness, and would clear the way for its prompt treatment...