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...half years ago he went commercial, farmed out subcontracts for the gruesome gewgaws to a few ex-patients, now makes more money peddling the trinkets than he does as a radiologist. Some of his bestselling designs: a coiled white intestinal tract with a bright red, about-to-burst appendix; gastric resection with or without ulcer; a uterus and Fallopian tubes with cancer of the cervix (available, like the rest of the doodads, as earrings) ; a Daliesque assortment of unblinking, bloodshot eyes...
...Gezira needs to make it the most green and pleasant land in all of the Sudan is water. Because of the area's gentle slope, engineers have only to scoop canals to bring water flowing in from the Blue Nile. Already, more than 25% of the Gezira tract is blooming-a sort of California Imperial Valley development in the midst of the parched Sudanese plains. A Sudanese proposal to expand the Gezira development by another dam on the Blue Nile at Roseires (see map) has met with violent opposition by Egypt. For years Egypt and the Sudan have worked...
...Vatican radio station built by Marconi began broadcasting 26 years ago. This week the Vatican radio (call letters: HVJ, which have no particular significance) will go on the air with a far stronger voice: a powerful, new transmitting station (cost: about $3,200,000). Located on a 200-acre tract at Santa Maria di Galeria, twelve miles northwest of Rome, the 100-kw. main transmitter, more powerful by 40 kw. than Marconi's, is equipped with 24 Telefunken directional aerials (designed to overcome variations in signal strength caused by fluctuations in the ionosphere). A second, medium-distance transmitter, able...
...million new city with 10,000 housing units, two shopping centers, one of biggest industrial areas in South. Group includes Developer Martin Cerel, Lou Perini of Milwaukee Braves baseball club and Boston's Perini Corp. (heavy construction). They bought a 4,000-acre tract for $4,352,503, will start work within six months...
...teachers at "hot spring parties," and the teachers see to it that Marxist texts get adopted by their schools. One such text, Model Junior High Social Study, was edited by the author of the story that inspired the anti-American film Hiroshima, is nothing but a propaganda tract against capitalism and Western imperialism. Another book, Enlightened Society, carries the picture of the "great leader" Mao Tse-tung, describes Japan as "the problem child of the Far East" and a nation that has always been inferior to China and Russia. The Russian declaration of war in 1945 is a triumph...