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...Venezuela's diamond-rich Guiana, no prospector was more given to the feverish, carousing miner's life than Agustín Martínez. For months he would pan the sandy river bottoms; finding a few diamonds, he would load his canoe with rum and float downriver, happily strumming the cuatro, his four-stringed guitar. Then some missionaries showed Agustín the error of his ways. "I put the cuatro and the rum in a sack and threw them into the Caroni River," he reported...
...almost dollar for dollar by big boosts in consumer income needed to pay off the new debts. The $22.5 billion in installment credit is still less than 9% of U.S. consumers' disposable personal income, and the ratio has climbed barely 2% in 15 years. Furthermore, as the credit load has gone up, U.S. consumers have started to pay off their debts faster. They are now repaying installment loans at a record 11.5% of disposable income v. 9% a few years ago. Farm mortgages, for example, have soared to a 22-year peak of $8 billion; yet farmers are paying...
Minneapolis surgeons had been getting good results with their "cross-circulation technique" for delicate surgery inside the heart-using another human being's heart and lungs to take the load off the patient's while they operated (TIME, May 10). But it was a tricky business, and they would have liked to cut out the danger to a second human being. Why not a mechanical heart and lungs, which several research teams have tried? For one thing, the Minneapolis doctors reasoned, strange things can happen to human blood in a mechanical oxygenating system; it may undergo mysterious changes...
Almost every barrier the U.S. meets abroad is matched by wrangling at home. The Agriculture and Treasury Departments, which bear the brunt of the surplus costs, will go for almost any scheme to move commodities into the market place and lessen the load...
...Page explained it: "Your capacity for tension has a limit beyond which it isn't safe to go ... The patterns you establish in your late 20s and early 30s largely determine your load-carrying capacities during your 40s and later. Crackups in middle life are usually the consequence of what you have accumulated or abused in your earlier years. Most crackups are needless. They are a self-invited penalty that we Americans are paying for a doubtful standard of material success. In Europe, and over most of the world, physical and mental crackups are rare, despite wars and tensions...