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...volunteered to do legal work for the State Department, wound up in Montevideo, Uruguay, keeping a cloak-without-dagger eye on Nazi shipping in the area. Within a year he was recalled to the State Department in Washington, was made a divisional assistant in charge of "economic warfare in Latin America" -watching Axis business operations in the whole area. Just before the war ended, Mann went to Mexico City for the Chapultepec Conference. That meeting set down the concept for a U.S.-Latin American defense plan that was to become the Rio Treaty of 1947-still the Western Hemisphere...
Napoleon's Width. What rubs salt in the wound is that the French claim to have invented the automobile, either in 1873, when one Amedée Bollée built a steam car that was driven from Paris to Bordeaux, or in 1891, when Rene Panhard and Emile Levassor placed a German Daimler motor on a chassis and thus created the first true auto. France remained the center of the automotive world until World War I, when the U.S. forged ahead. But the ardor for cars has never dimmed, and with today's prosperity, French automakers sell...
...Last year I stopped smoking. After six months, I wound up an overweight nervous wreck, suffering from compulsive eating habits, extreme tension, unexplained chest cramps, a sudden rush of gum and teeth problems, and facing a costly replacement in clothing. Two months ago, I resumed smoking and the chest and dental problems promptly vanished, I am losing the excess poundage, eat normally, and most of the tension has departed...
...highly respected ten-term Republican Congressman from Wisconsin, was associated with one of ex-Senate Democratic Secretary Bobby Baker's big-money schemes. Byrnes had helped get a favorable tax ruling for a Milwaukee insurance firm, then at Baker's urging bought $2,300 worth of stock, wound up with about 1,100% increase in value. Later Byrnes pleaded innocent in a dramatic House floor speech, promised to give his profits to charity. And last week Byrnes-with the blessing of top Wisconsin Republicans-announced that he would run as a favorite-son candidate in the state presidential...
After a year of these symptoms, the cop took a transfer to the police garage, where he worked as a mechanic. He got no better and wound up in the Yale-New Haven Medical Center, where he soon improved and began gaining weight-only to have a severe relapse after six months back on the job. What helped the doctors clear up his case was the fact that the cop sometimes took a holiday down on the farm, working a tractor that required him to walk behind it. Helped by tractor-engine exhaust, his vacation "cure" gave him the same...