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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arsenio introduced me to Taruc's other relatives: Romeo, 17, his only son, who had spent four years in the hills with his father; Meliton, 52, Taruc's half brother. These kinsmen formed the nucleus of a crude little intelligence unit whose job was to seek out Taruc and arrange...
...alma mater of which he is proudest is New York's Presbyterian Hospital, where be spent a two year interneship after graduating from Columbia Medical School in 1916. Ferry also found time to get married in 1916, and even made an expedition with General Pershing's National Guard unit to the Mexican border, where Poncho Villa was shooting up local villages. During one of the skirmishes, Ferry recalls, a stray bullet whizzed past his nose, pierced the head of a mule standing next to him, and stopped only when it hit a pack of cigarettes in a sergeant's pocket...
...certainly feel this is a step forward in establishing Dudley as an eighth unit. in the House system," Whitlock said last night. "The library will help ensure that Dudley has tutorial advantages similar to those of the other Houses...
...building totaled $10.1 billion, up about 1.5% from last year's record-breaking levels. Highway construction shot up 25% from a year ago to $250 million in April. Private housing stepped up last year's fast pace in the first four months to better than a million-unit-a-year clip. The trade magazine Engineering News-Record reported that last week was the second highest on record for new housing starts...
Chemical Garbage Can. A chemical garbage disposal unit for homes has been put on the market by the Bardmatic Corporation of Muskegon, Mich. Refuse is dumped into an underground container and sprinkled with a charge of chemicals before the unit's conical steel top is clamped into place. Liquefied by reaction with the chemicals, the garbage seeps off into the soil. Since the reaction is continuous, the first charge of chemicals lasts indefinitely. Price...