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...worked on the insulin treatment for 15 years, has used it for 11,000 treatments without fatal effect. Lately he spent seven weeks in the Lower California Military Zone, just over the border from the U.S. While in Lower California Dr. Perez Garcia cured General Juan Felipe Rico's wife of gall bladder trouble, gave about 155 treatments on 40 cases, including a woman paralyzed with tertiary syphilis. After four treatments she walked...
...graces of the art of design were fittingly embodied last week when Miss Elena Davila (see cut) won Columbia University's twelfth annual medal for social architecture. The competition subject was a recreation-area shelter. Born in Puerto Rico, Miss Davila studied at Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill Academy, is an equestrian and stamp collector, a skillful photographer, an enthusiastic dancer in the Spanish manner. Her father, an alumnus of M.I.T., is Lieut. Commander Jorge V. Davila, U.S.N.R., now on duty in Puerto Rico...
...sightseeing and a competition to choose the likeliest boy & girl scientists in the U.S. They were finalists in the third annual science talent search run by the news agency Science Service. They had tea in the White House with Eleanor Roosevelt before she went off to Puerto Rico. They chatted with Vice President Wallace, hobnobbed with eminent elder scientists, swarmed irreverently through the halls of Congress and the endless corridors of the Pentagon...
...cannot see any reason to justify why, in a good democracy," cried Senate President Luis Munoz Marin, leader of the dominating Popular Democratic Party, "Puerto Rico should be denied the right to have complete self-government without limitation." Independent-sounding amens came fast from all other party leaders-Union Republicans, Socialists, whatnots...
...Pren Rico...