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...peace negotiations took on the color of desperation. Yet the last-minute dickering continued-for the alternative might well prove to be the biggest, longest and costliest strike, or series of strikes, the U.S. had ever seen...
Those who were dosed the longest and could stand the largest doses improved the most. (One trouble with Promin: treatment sometimes has to stop because it causes anemia.) Only two patients got worse in spite of treatment, and their cases were very advanced. The Leprosarium doctors think improvement under Promin is "definite." The next step is to try out the newer, better TB drugs-diasone and streptomycin...
...lasted four innings, was followed by four Tiger pitchers. Big Hank's second homer of the series evened the score in the eighth inning. Passeau lasted six, Wyse one; Borowy was the fourth Cub hurler, and the winner-after 28 hits and five errors in twelve innings, the longest World Series game on record (3 hrs. 28 min) Score: Chicago 8, Detroit...
...Juan Domingo Perón last week looked down upon half-a-million of his countrymen. They shouted "Down with Perón!" "Death to dictatorship!" For three hours, they marched through Buenos Aires' Calle Callos. They whistled, hooted and catcalled. It was Perón's longest raspberry...
...over Canada the planes ran into headwinds and trouble. They used up so much gas that they all had to come down at Chicago. But it was still the longest nonstop flight in U.S. Army history.* At Chicago they refueled and went on to Washington. Time for the 5,995-mile nonstop flight to Chicago: 25 hours, 43 minutes, an average speed of about 286 m.p.h. Said Lieut. General Barney Giles, commanding the flight: "This was a practical test, not a stunt." He added that planes soon will be flying back and forth without trouble all the time...