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...Meanwhile, the helicopters of 1953 are finding new and increasingly fantastic employment with every passing day. They string power lines across peaks of the high Rockies, and thresh slowly over northern Canada doing mineral surveys from the air. They have landed yellow-fever vaccine in Costa Rican jungle clearings, and have plucked sick, wounded or stranded men from mountain ledges, deep canyons, flood areas and sinking ships all over the world...
...heart, and within a few hours Sarno was photographed and interviewed by every newspaper in town. The New York Herald Tribune announced that the boy, on being caught, said calmly: "I haven't got my shoes on." It later turned out that little Francis, a child of Puerto Rican parents, knew only one English word, "Godfrey," and because of the influence of television, thought that it meant "tea bag." But amid the happy hysteria nobody minded...
...week's end it seemed certain that both men had done their daring best to save a child's life, but there was no way at all of really telling who deserved the credit. Meanwhile, incensed Puerto Rican and Italian women in the neighborhood had begun screaming "Dirty Jew" at Brower's wife, and "Jew Lover" at a Polish woman who insisted that the bus driver was the hero. Suspicion settled cloudily over the whole affair. Said Brower bitterly: "My friends tell me I should get a lawyer to clear my name." It seemed like good advice...
Last week, flushed with the greatest popular vote ever received by a Costa Rican politician, Pepe Figueres was talking softly. He pledged that U.S. investment capital would find an "environment of safety and honesty" in Costa Rica. "There is one thing I want to make clear: this is going to be a pro-United States government. That is definite...
...month she was almost totally blind. Not until then did a cautious Yaqui Indian sidle up and tell Joe what had really happened: "She's had a curse put on her by a powerful witch." Joe snorted. But when the Yaqui recommended that he see a Puerto Rican bruja about a cure. Joe went. The witch knew all about Josefina's case, and offered to save one of her eyes for $100. Joe paid...