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...likelihood, not even death would serve to clear up much of the mystery that surrounded Gulbenkian's life. The extent of his fortune is still a jealously guarded secret, and the incredible diversity of his financial interests was such that probably nobody but Gulbenkian himself had more than an approximate notion of them. Even the vital statistics of his life are obscured by stubborn legend. Born in a suburb of Constantinople, less than a decade after the huge oil reserves of Russia were first tapped, Gulbenkian was said to have been smuggled into England by his father...
...Canadian youngsters had been inoculated without a single proved case of polio resulting from the vaccine. The greatest and most significant technical difference between U.S. and Canadian methods was that all vaccinations in Canada had been given by subcutaneous (under the skin) injection. This greatly lessened the likelihood that paralytic polio would be provoked by jaBbing a needle into muscle and nerves...
...demand for a shorter work week-44 hours as opposed to what they call the 56-70 hours now demanded of them. As the week drew on, the strikers immobilized the biggest prize of all, the Queen Mary. Fuming with indignation because the shipowners had pooh-poohed the likelihood of a strike until they were comfortably settled in their cabins, hundreds of the Mary's passengers, many of them U.S. tourists, were bundled off the ship and deposited back in London, to stand holding wilted flowers and half-empty champagne bottles in Waterloo Station. "I'm going...
...Heavy smoking alone, or in combination with heavy drinking, greatly increases the likelihood of cancer of the larynx...
...likelihood goes up with the amount smoked: if a light smoker (up to 15 cigarettes daily) has X chance of larynx cancer, a 16-to-34 man has almost double that chance and an over-35-a-day smoker nearly four times that chance. Noninhaling cigar and pipe smokers run about the same risk as 16-to-34 cigarette men (higher, relatively, than their risk of lung cancer...