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...evidence is that the Belgian way is working. The Congo, under hard-working capitalism, has become a tropical cornucopia in the heart of a poverty-stricken continent...
...Americans prosperous simply because they stumbled upon a fabulous lode of natural resources? The book quotes the late Economist Wesley Mitchell, who pointed out that American Indians "lived in a poverty-stricken environment. For them, no coal existed, no petroleum, no metals beyond nuggets of pure copper . . . A precarious food supply, flimsy housing, mystical medicine and chronic warfare limited the increase in numbers." Says Dewhurst: "Technology, in fact, can be thought of as the primary resource; without it all other resources would be economically nonexistent . . . Technological progress during the past century, especially since 1900, appears to have been more rapid...
What Went Wrong? On the day Larry Vicker was stricken, a 13-month-old boy in Pocatello, Idaho got sick too. He had been vaccinated eight days earlier. Also in Pocatello, Susan Pierce, seven, became ill with bulbar polio three days after her inoculation. Within two days she was dead. In Moscow, Idaho, another seven-year-old girl died. A rash of cases was reported, from Napa, Calif, to Chicago...
Interrupted Melody (M-G-M). The Salk vaccine, which prevents infantile paralysis, will probably bring out, in reaction, a low-grade rash of films like this one. If ignored, they will go away. Based on the autobiography of Marjorie Lawrence, the Metropolitan Opera star who was stricken with the disease in 1941 but came back in 1943 to sing Venus from a sitting position, Interrupted Melody is a poliopera in color. For three-fourths of the picture, Singer Lawrence (played by Eleanor Parker, sung by Eileen Farrell) vivaciously eludes the clutches of one hairy tenor after another in scenes from...
...bogus article, which also claimed that the Institute's president had been confined because of "a mysterious plague" unintentionally coincided with an actual outbreak of intestinal illness that had stricken more than 125 students just two days before the paper was published...