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...present recipients are Karl W. Deutsch, age 25, a refugee from the Sudeten area in Czechoslovakia, who received a doctor's degree in law and political science with high honors from Charles University, Prague, in 1938, and Kurt Herzfeld, age 20, a refugee from Austria, who studied a year at the University of Vienna. Both arrived in this country a few months ago. Deutsch will study in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, specializing in economics and political science, and Herzfeld will be an undergraduate in the College, specializing in economics...
...Madrid. To compensate for its unwieldy shape, nature has given it a variety of riches: underneath its parched yellow soil in the desolate northern region lie the world's most valuable deposits of nitrate and the second largest known deposits of copper; its pleasant, well-watered, fertile central area, where most of its people live, supplies more wheat, cattle and wine than Chile can use; and its rain-sodden southern provinces are rich in lumber, much of them still virgin territory and inhabited by half-savage Indians...
Broken communication lines, uprooted roads and rail tracks cut the area off from the rest of Chile. Not until amateur radio operators sent out terse pleas for help, did Santiago, where only slight tremors were felt, learn of the damage. At dawn a Government plane headed south to survey the stricken city. What the observers saw sent them speeding back to Santiago...
Last week Professor Thurlow Christian Nelson, head of Rutgers University's zoology department, bluntly told New York and New Jersey health officials that the Greater New York area "has probably the highest incidence of trichinosis in hogs and in humans to be found anywhere in the world." Next in rank are Boston and San Francisco. Many of the cases are caused by consumption of improperly cooked frankfurters and hamburgers which are made of mixed pork and beef, said Dr. Nelson. "The average 'hot dog,' " he explained, "is barely warmed through before being slapped into its mustard bath...
With an estimated shortage of 2,000 houses in and around the Clairtown area, the building firm of Gilbert-Varker, Inc. persuaded Big Steel to cooperate in erecting a 300-house, 92-acre subdivision known as Colonial Village. FHA got behind 80% of the project's $1,314,000 total cost, local investment bankers did the rest. Costing $4,200 to $4,800 each, the houses use as much as 7,000 lbs. of steel, compared to the 2,380 Ibs. in the usual small dwelling...