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...pediatricians assembled in Manhattan's Pennsylvania Hotel for a three-day regional conference, there was nothing new in Dr. Bass's statement that expectant mothers who catch German measles in the first few weeks of pregnancy often give birth to defective children. What rattled their pince-nez were his recommendations that: 1) if the disease occurs in the first three months of pregnancy, abortion should be considered; 2) every effort should be made to expose young girls to rubella, to set up probable immunity...
Last week this sports renaissance had gone far. Because Honduras had beaten Guatemala in the Central American futbol championship series being played at San José, Costa Rica, futbol-converted Carias ordered church bells rung, proclaimed a three-day national holiday. Dizzy with victory, he offered his tim $1,000 if it won the series. But despite prize money and bell-ringing, Costa Rica came in first, Guatemala second, Honduras fifth...
...Year was greeted according to immemorial custom. Honanese hoisted red lanterns on 50-foot poles to scare away a ten-headed bird of evil. Kweiyang folk indulged in a kind of three-day gambling festival. In Yunnan no one would think of gambling (because if you gamble on New Year's you will gamble all year long); children gathered odd-shaped stones to represent bad luck, cast them into kitchen ovens to be purged...
Most business houses shut down in a three-day protest against Perón's 30% wage-increase decrees. They promised to pay their staffs; meantime, had already paid the government-dictated wage increases and bonuses. The real issue: dictatorial government...
...hats, cowboy boots and levis. So the most important figure of the day looked out of place in a cap and a "bulky, sheepskin-lined winter coat. He was chubby George Rodanz, 37, a Toronto, Ont. trucklines operator and cattle breeder. He had come to Oklahoma's annual three-day auction, in the heart of "Hereford heaven," to buy a prize bull...