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With all his command of water and of words, Balboa was not able to stave off a rival conquistador named Pedro Arias Dávila. Pedrarias, as he was better known, displaced him as governor of Darién, and despite all Balboa's diplomacy (including marriage with Pedrarias' daughter), had his predecessor's head chopped off and stuck on a pole in the village square...
...Coronary patients who think they can stave off further attacks by unnatural idleness are mistaken, said Manhattan's Dr. Arthur M. Master. 'Of 2,200 heart attacks, he found, 23% occurred during sleep, 29% while at rest, 24% during mild activity, 13% during walking at an ordinary pace, 9% during moderate activity and only 2% during unusual exertion. ¶ Basing his judgment more on "clinical sense" than on statistical proofs, Boston's Dr. Richard H. Overholt advised: "If you have a family history of cancer of any kind, don't smoke, but if you have...
Farmer Bading went to work on the neighbors with a will. He clobbered the postman with a shovel, yelling "At last I have you, you witch!" He assaulted startled passersby with pitchfork and stave, crying "Witches! Devils!" and accusing them of blowing poisonous vapors into his barn. At last the authorities ar rested Farmer Bading and turned him over to a hospital for observation. Bading proceeded to pass his psychiatric tests with flying colors. Sane as a stoat, said the examining doctor; he just happens to believe in witches: "So do many other people." Last week Farmer Bading was back...
...Jerry" Persons, the President's liaison man with Capitol Hill, had put in long hours trying to coax dissatisfied Congressmen back into line. Dwight Eisenhower himself had thrown the weight of his military prestige behind the air-power cut in a nationwide radio speech. Last week, fighting to stave off the possibility that Congress might decide to rewrite the budget, the Administration seized on the notion of using public hearings of a Senate Appropriations subcommittee as a sounding board for Wilson and his program...
...strike was provoked by the decision of the Administration's "impartial" fact-finding committee to give the union an even bigger raise than it expected-plus the union shop to boot. When the industry refused, Mobilizer Charles Edward Wilson, General Electric's ex-president, tried to stave off the strike with a deal to give the steelmakers a price raise to match the wage increase. President Truman okayed the deal, then backed down, leaving Wilson no choice but to quit after 15 months as mobilizer. After 53 days, a settlement was reached; it was almost exactly what Wilson...