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...much an accepted plague of life that the abdominal pain it causes, the blood in the urine and feces, often are disregarded until too late. After years of apparent health, a victim's abdomen may swell as he gradually grows weak and dies, his liver, lungs, urinary tract or even his heart damaged beyond hope from the irritation caused by thousands of parasite eggs...
...Herbert Hoover, 88, condition serious, "due to anemia secondary to bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract," at home in his Waldorf-Astoria apartment; G. Frederick Reinhardt, 51, U.S. Ambassador to Italy, hospitalized in Rome with an ulcer and low blood pressure; Republican Clarence J. Brown, 67, Ohio's senior Congressman, suffering "a severe back strain," abed at Bethesda Naval Hospital; Queen Ingrid of Denmark, 53, with mild stomach ulcers, abandoning all engagements in favor of rest and diet, at her summer residence, Fredensborg Castle...
...this tract you shall build your church" (on this library you shall build your college). "After they had injoyed faire winds and weather for a season," wrote Governor William Bradford of the Mayflower's first crossing to New England, "they were incountered many times with corsse winds, and mett with many fierce storms, with which the ship was shroudly shaken, and her upper works made very leakie....So some of the cheafe of the company, perceiving the mariners to feare the suffisiencie of the ship, as appeared by their mutterings, they entered into consultation with their masters and other officers...
...that it could take until 1967 to fill them. Across the U.S., the number of office buildings with 10% or more vacancy has jumped from 18.6% last year to 26.3% in 1963. As for homes, any developer today who is rash enough to build 200 houses on a suburban tract runs the risk of bankruptcy before he sells them; in Denver, several marginal builders have already gone bankrupt. Yet the demand for homes is up this year in nearly half the U.S., and for a good reason: prices have become more reasonable. A recent survey by the national real estate...
...been considered by its devotees among the Pacific's finest deep-sea fishing areas. The long-established Kona Inn. a barracks-like octopus of a place, captures much of the millionaire trade. But it is about to acquire a new rival. Promoter Laurance Rockefeller has leased a large tract around Kaunaoa Beach, hired Architects Skidmore. Owings & Merrill to design a $12 million, 150-room resort hotel intended to provide every luxury anybody is willing...