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With the news, Venezuela exploded with joy. Scores of letters, telegrams and donations poured into the hospital. President Rómulo Betancourt phoned twice in a day; the hospital picked up the medical tab and the government set up a fund to cover the boys' education. The family can well use it. Inés María and the babies' father, Efrén Lubín Prieto, 38, live in a 20-ft.-sq. mud hut in a dismal slum on the shore of Lake Maracaibo...
...machine is the IBM 1410 computer of the U.S. Commerce Department's National Driver Register Service, a little-known Government body set up by an Act of Congress 2½ years ago. It is a step toward a computerized Big Brotherhood that may one day be keeping elaborate tab on everybody...
...meet ings?" he says. But he nevertheless owns a healthy 25% of Route 66 and insists that from now on he will hold out for 50% ownership of any show he writes. He installed a Dow-Jones ticker tape in the study of his home in Glendale to keep tab on his stock transactions. He agrees with his fellow apprentices that TV writers are grossly underpaid...
...calorie soft drinks will double in 1963 to $200 million, accounting for 7% of the soft-drink market. Some 400 plants are bottling artificially sweetened* drinks that have 1 to 3 calories a glass instead of the usual 60. This year, for example, Coca-Cola has launched "Tab" cola and Pepsi-Cola has introduced its "Patio" family of five different flavors. Both companies report that the low-calorie beverages have not cut sales of the con ventional colas; instead they have lured customers who seldom before bought soft drinks. Though distribution expenses run high, sugar-free drinks bring sweet profits...
Electricity for All. Construction will take 15 years, and the initial cost will be steep-more than $1 billion, including the tab for a 250,000-kw. generating station on the upper St. John River. The whole cost will be borne by the U.S. But proponents believe that the eventual usage will make it worthwhile. New England and Canada's Maritime provinces currently pay 6.36 mills per kw-h for power; Quoddy power, it is said, will cost only 4 mills per kwh. The vast complex of dams and locks should draw an army of tourists and have...