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Food was good; the "screws" (guards) were, within limits, kind, Nathan Leopold, 19 years old when he entered prison, did service as a malaria guinea pig. increased his knowledge of foreign languages to 27, and acquired the elements of, or at least a desire for. religious faith. But readers may well feel that they never saw a man who looked so listlessly at the sky. Leopold shows the clear lapse of reason by which, like most lifers, he became a collector of injustices in a place where uncommon cruelty was a common failing. In short, Leopold can tell everything about...
...House, he spoke gratefully of some $80 million worth of dollar aid given his assassinated predecessor, U.S.-favored Carlos Castillo Armas. With about $35 million of the aid funds still unspent, Ydigoras said that the only additional aid he might need would be a relatively modest sum for fighting malaria and hookworm disease. He told State Department Inter-American Affairs Chief Roy Rubottom that he planned to spend money on agriculture, rural resettlement and roadbuilding. With World Bank President Eugene...
Dickie Loeb died in prison twelve years later, slashed 56 times with a razor blade by another convict, who said that Loeb had made homosexual advances to him. Nathan Leopold stayed on, teaching in the prison school, reorganizing the library, offering himself for malaria-control experiments during World War II. He applied for parole three times, wras turned down each time-until last week, when the Illinois parole board on a split vote approved his fourth application. He promised to devote his life to good works, plans to take a $10-a-month hospital job in Puerto Rico. Yet Leopold...
...same rule fed his fortune as he drained the city's malaria-breeding lowlands and on them built whole new developments such as Prati, where Rome's wealthy now dwell. It fortified him through the galling years when he repaired and built streets in Rome, ports in Sicily and roads of African conquest at Mussolini's whim. One day Mussolini called him to his Palazzo Venezia, said: "I can't see the Colosseum from my window." Replied Vaselli: "There's a hill in the way. Give me an order and I'll remove...
International bodies pay one-fifth of the costs, the U.S. another fifth through economic-aid programs, and the participating governments put up the remaining three-fifths. How cheap it is for all concerned is shown by India, the world's greatest malaria reservoir. Farm workers used to lose 170 million man-days a year, and many areas suffered semistarvation because of the ravages of the disease. The direct death toll was a million a year, and dirt-poor villagers paid an average of 10 rupees each for nostrums. Already, with partial control programs, India has cut malaria cases from...