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Among the facts and conjectures produced in the seven-day session...
Lady Luck. On every game and table, detailed statistics are compiled for each shift in Harold's 24-hour day and seven-day week (the club has been closed on only three occasions: V-E and V-J days and the day of Franklin Roosevelt's funeral). There is almost no guesswork at Harold's. The statistical department, headed by Guy Lent, 55, formerly a chief statistician for Cities Service Co. in New York, knows the odds on every angle of the business. From a quick count of the license plates outside, the Smiths can tell...
Argentina's Juan Perón summoned his Congress into special session last week to vote him permission* to visit Chile later this month as the guest of his old friend and fellow general, President Carlos Ibáñez. During the seven-day trip, Perón expects to visit Santiago and Valparaiso, and to sign a treaty trading Argentine steers for Chilean copper...
...visit his wife, who is critically ill in a Black Forest hospital, officials of the British military prison at Werl signed a seven-day parole for ex-Field Marshal Erich von Manstein, the Wehrmacht's 63-year-old Panzer specialist, who is serving a twelve-year war crime sentence. One condition of the leave: a pledge of honor not to talk to reporters...
Like the nine other hopheads in the roundup, Peggy agreed to let Dr. Hogness go to work. For the first three days of the seven-day course he gave the ACTH intravenously, then switched to muscle injections. Peggy's response was spectacular. Though profuse sweating, cramps, headaches, diarrhea and vomiting usually occur during withdrawal, Peggy suffered from none of these. Her baby was born and showed no sign of addiction...