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...could, and promptly did. Senior Scientist Roy Fritz (who is working for a Ph. D. in entomology) and Nurse Albina Bozym flew west. For weeks they worked from early morning till late at night, checking on the Camp Fire Girls' recent illnesses. They found six more cases of malaria. The girls must have been infected at Lake Vera. Mosquitoes trapped there proved to be the disease-carrying kind. But who took the malaria there to begin with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Disease Detectives | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...span, Albert, his conductor and all 20 passengers soared off into space, leaped the widening gap and landed with a horrendous thump on the southern span six feet below. "I thought that might start going up too," said Albert, "so I just kept right on till I got to the other bank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Jumping Bus | 1/12/1953 | See Source »

Liberal Union spokesmen said the $180 missing from the till after an H.L.U. showing of "The 39 Steps" before vacation was returned, and the club would not seek further action...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Crack H.L.U. Thefts Case; Suspect Returns Missing Money | 1/6/1953 | See Source »

...rattled gourds, joined in the shuffling and shimmying around the sacred poteau (post). As the dancing grew more boisterous, women screamed, thrashed, moaned, kicked, bounced bonelessly and collapsed -"possessed" by the loa (god) of the night. Though no loa "mounted" him, Doc Reser danced, drummed and drank happily till dawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: The Man Who Stayed Behind | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...have had in a generation. They will be willing to take more risks with the possibility of earning better returns." Arms-spending is still on the rise, and when it reaches its peak in 1953, it will level off and continue at a rate of $53 billion a year till mid-1955. Buying power will also increase; recent wage boosts will add an estimated $7 billion to 1953's in come. And the U.S. consumer has a record $283 billion of accumulated savings avail able for deferred purchases...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Boom Into What? | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

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