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...situation at the moment is serious enough," says Beni's Dr. Joseph Barnes, "but it is rosy compared with what might happen three months from now." Beni Hospital has only a two-month supply of antibiotics, and unless more drugs arrive soon, Dr. Barnes predicts a skyrocketing rate of meningitis, pneumonia and leprosy-plus an outbreak of sleeping sickness. Worse yet, most of the U.N. doctors are scheduled to leave in De cember. Says Dr. Barnes: "What we need here is an almost unknown animal: a specialist in tropical diseases, surgery and obstetrics, with good French and Swahili...
...slumping for several weeks, retail sales turned up again at the end of September, were 4% over last year for the last week reported. Business loans, an indicator of plans for future business activity, rose sharply in the first three weeks of September-by some $600 million-after a two-month decline. Even the stock market, which has been sliding, turned around last week and moved up three days in a row. Advised Ben Davis of Wall Street's Mitchell, Hutchins & Co., whose quips often get more attention than his guesses: "The time to buy stocks is not when...
...member of the Medical School Faculty will leave October 29 for Nigeria, where he will conduct a two-month vaccination program against measles, a major disease among the local children...
Good, for a Change. Despite the disagreement, the week's business news-for a change-was encouraging. The Commerce Department reported that manufacturers' new orders in August rose 2% over July, ending a two-month decline and taking the sting out of a decline in manufacturers' sales for the sixth straight month. Machine-tool orders soared 32% over July for the best rise of the year, partly because of pending price increases of from 4% to 10%. Construction put in place in September continued to move upward. Department-store sales snapped back from a three-week decline...
...presented to last week's international space symposium in Stockholm, three Douglas Aircraft Co. engineers estimated that a scant $500 should one day cover basic costs of one passenger's round-trip transportation, by nuclear spaceship, to the moon. The price to Mars: $4,000 during a two-month "tourist season"-the period when the Red Planet's orbit brings it closest to the earth...