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During a tuberculosis survey of Milan in 1958, schoolchildren had been given scratches on both arms: one for the tuberculin test, the other for histoplasmosis. This disease, which is like TB in the variety of its effects-ranging from an undetectable, mild infection to fulminating and rapidly fatal cases-is caused by a fungus, Histoplasma capsulatum. Unrecognized until 50 years ago, histoplasmosis is still often mistaken for, and mistakenly treated as, TB. It is now known to be especially common in the mid-continent states. But Milan's infection rate turned out to be an astonishing 62%, contrasted with...
...boxer at the University of Virginia ('37). In later years Caplin's reputation was built on his record as a teacher (former pupils: Bobby and Ted Kennedy), authority on taxation and corporate law, and civic leader; he turned his Charlottesville basement playroom into an emergency classroom for schoolchildren during the "massive resistance" period in 1958, when Virginia closed its public schools. Long a proponent of tax reform, Caplin favors cutting upper-bracket income taxes to 65%, lower-bracket taxes...
...schools," said he, "and private schools enjoy the abundant resources of private enterprise." Cardinal Spellman simply does not accept that view. The nation's nonpublic schools enroll 6,800,000 students, he noted, of which Catholic schools have more than 5,000,000-or 11% of all U.S. schoolchildren...
...schools is certain to come, and because Catholic parochial school enrollment is growing faster than public school enrollment, the issue will sharpen. About one out of every three U.S. babies is born to a Catholic family, and parochial schools now enroll as many as 60% of all schoolchildren in heavily Catholic communities. Examples: Chicago, 34%; Philadelphia, 39%; Pittsburgh...
...grounds of the old Imperial Palace in Peking, rows of plebeian cabbages crowded up to the foundations. In the city not a taxicab could be found because the drivers were out collecting manure. Canton schoolchildren scurried out of class to plant vegetable gardens in vacant lots. To a foreign newsman, Premier Chou En-lai moaned that China this year had been visited by the worst combination of natural disasters in the century. No fewer than 133 million acres (one-half of the arable land) had been blistered by drought, tattered by storms or chomped bare by grasshoppers...