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...Rolla Dyer, Institute director, said last week that research would continue for at least five years. First year's budget: $50,000. The research team, still unselected: a medical officer who is an immunologist, a researcher experienced in handling viruses, an epidemiologist, possibly a biochemist. As a start, the team would attack the problem by isolating a cold virus, "or a bunch of viruses from a bunch of colds." Next step: development of an immunizing vaccine...
Chief target: alert, 46-year-old Joaquim Rolla, who controls a healthy chunk of the $300-million-a-year casino business. In 15 years, Rolla jumped from an unlettered horse trader to operator of six booming gambling palaces. He got such a name for efficiency that ex-President Getulio Vargas once asked him to run Brazil's $90-million steel plant (now abuilding). Rolla declined, preferring to build, near the summer capital of Petropolis, the ultimate in hotel-resort-casinos, $10-million, castle-like Quitandinha, where Brazil's inflation-rich flip colored chips onto the felt and frolic...
General Dwight D. Eisenhower met up with a fellow Kansan, Pfc. Rolla Ummel, somewhere in France, asked him what he had done before the war. When Ummel answered that he had been a farmer, the General asked: "How about giving me a job after the war?" Said the private cautiously: "I don't know, sir, but I'll keep you in mind...
Illinois' 19th District chose an unopposed Republican, Attorney Rolla C. McMillen of Decatur, to fill a Congressional vacancy last week. As a result, for the first time since 1931, the Democrats now lack an actual majority in the House. The 435 seats are split almost 50-50: Democrats (216), Republicans (212), American-Laborite (1), Farmer-Laborite (1), Progressives (2), and three vacancies...
...spring season, the team has lost its best half-milers, Rolla Campbell and Bill Young, the leading dash man Bill Trainor, a sparkling middle-distance man Frank McKechnie, the top hammer-thrower in Phil Zeigler, and, of course, Doug Pirnie, who could be counted on for 15 points in every meet...