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...relatives of political prisoners in La Cabana Fortress learned that 30 Castro gunslingers, in a predawn raid, had ordered the prisoners stripped naked, then had jabbed them with bayonets and beaten them with clubs and rifles. Castro's bag of political prisoners: 6,000, or three times the peak number under Dictator Fulgencio Batista...
...normal people, he said, the hydrocortisone output goes up sharply in the early morning hours to a peak around 6 a.m., then falls gradually to a nighttime resting level. In a rheumatoid arthritis victim, this pattern is generally reversed. Lacking adaptive ability, the patient reacts with a flare-up of disease when the cortisone tide ebbs. This may happen after delivery to a woman who has been free of arthritis symptoms during pregnancy. The letdown phenomenon is also seen in patients after long-term cortisone treatment...
...that able scientists do not enjoy working for government. Silverstein has been employed by the U.S. government for 30 of his 51 years, and he still likes his job well enough to stay at it for ten or eleven hours a day and for six days a week during peak periods...
Paul's Cathedral. Whereas modern London provides 51 gallons of water a day for each citizen, and New York City about 154, ancient Rome at its peak pumped 300 gallons for each unwashed head.There may be a lesson here for some Toynbee of indoor plumbing-if only that, when Rome fell, it was with a splash...
...consumers, the expected rise in prices will be no deterrent to purchasing, predicts the University of Michigan Survey Research Center. In its annual survey of consumer financing, the Center found that consumer inclinations to buy "are much improved" since the steel strike, but still below the peak levels reached during 1955-56. The proportion of consumers who think "it is a good time to buy" automobiles and other durable goods is much higher than a year ago. Consumers who plan to buy houses are also increasing in number, and purchase plans for most household-equipment items are "somewhat higher than...