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...rocket fuel. Isoniazid has been used by doctors since 1952 to arrest tuberculosis, and has helped cut the TB death rate in the U.S. from 30,000 a year to 10,000. Suspecting that it might also work for prevention, PHS four years ago began a test in Puerto Rico, Mexico and 16 states. Selecting 25,000 persons in daily contact with known tuberculars, researchers gave half of them daily doses of isoniazid; the other half got dummy pills as a control. Tabulation of the results showed that TB occurred five times oftener among those getting dummy pills than among...
Sleeping on the Floor. Spreading out from Miami, up to 40,000 Cubans have migrated to 45 states. Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. On Florida's west coast, 2,500 refugees are in cigar manufacturing Tampa. The city already has 11,000 unemployed, and jobs are scarce. A former university professor gets $139 a month as a floor refinisher; his wife, who was a teacher in Cuba, brings home $72 a month as a church-school playground supervisor. In Cuba the family earned $1,000 a month, but now they sleep on the floor for want...
...next day the vanguard headed out to their new assignments. Fifty (including 21 young women) went directly to Ghana, to teach in secondary schools. The other 30 (all men) flew to Puerto Rico for 26 days of field training before proceeding to Tanganyika, where they will build roads for the next two years. Available soon to each corpsman is a special guidebook, "Working Effectively Overseas." Crammed with information on the problems and pitfalls-trivial as well as serious-of working in primitive countries, the booklet was drawn from the painful experience of other Americans in the field. Items...
...ballpark, the crowds have evaporated, to be sure-attendance is down some 281,000 from last season-but why pay $2.25 to witness a foregone conclusion? On the other hand, the Phillies' losing trail has been strewn with heartfelt messages of encouragement from as far off as Puerto Rico and Hawaii. "Hang in there and fight," read one. "We have faith that you'll shake this thing yet," read another. Wading last week through a pile of such pep-talk mail. Manager Mauch shook his head in wonder. "I once thought everybody loved a winner," he said...
Misplaced Pacific. To geophysicists, the Puerto Rico Trench is one of the most interesting places on earth. Lying north of Puerto Rico, it is something like the Grand Canyon sunk under three to four miles of water. Like other deep ocean trenches, it is believed to be a place where the earth's crust is sinking into the interior, perhaps carried down by slow, enormous currents in the plastic mantle. Since trenches are characteristic of the Pacific Ocean, where they abound, some geophysicists consider the Puerto Rico Trench a part of the Pacific that has bulged into the Atlantic...