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...strange blend of Christian religion and primitive superstition Angel Sanchez had conceived a powerful devotion for the miracle-working Virgin of El Quinche. A dark, fanatical-looking mestizo, Sanchez even wore a medal of the Virgin pinned through the flesh of his breast. But last week he was locked up ia a Quito jail, charged with stealing the jewels from the highland village shrine where he had worshiped...
...jail in Quito last week, Sanchez, still burning with fever, said: "My conscience troubles me continuously, and at every moment I remember what I did." Fingering the Virgin's medal at his breast, he sighed: "I do not believe any longer the Virgin will take me out of jail; maybe some charitable person will have mercy on my bitter situation...
...causes of cancer, researchers have long suspected. In 1936, a viruslike "milk factor" was discovered in mice. Last week a five-man Columbia University team reported that it had succeeded, after twelve years of work, in isolating, identifying and photographing (in an electron microscope) a virus that causes breast cancer in mice. The virus is so powerful that an injection of eight one-thousandths of a gamma (a gamma is one-thousandth of a milligram) produced cancer even in male mice. Next step, already started: trying to make mice immune to the virus...
...kicked in the glass in the comptroller's office door, methodically laid out his tools: an 8-lb. sledge hammer with a loin. handle, two drift-pins, two chisels, 100 fuse-type blasting caps and four electric blasting caps with wires. He tapped the battery in the breast pocket of his leather jacket and hoped he wouldn't have to use it, because a well-grounded safe man hates to blast; it is a matter of professional pride...
Bellboys Pem Hart, Al Weatherhead and Paul Killoran in the freestyle, and Jeff Moore in the backstroke excelled as usual, while Hart and Dave Ayers upheld Lowell's superiority in the breast stroke. Adams took second in the meet, defeating Winthrop...