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...Half the buildings in Colima crumbled into dust. The cathedral, rebuilt after the quake that struck Colima in 1932, was destroyed again. That night Colima was lighted up by the dull glow of forest fires, touched off by the city's charcoal-burning dumps when panic-stricken workers abandoned them...
...intestine. Such short-circuited dogs usually develop ulcers and die within a few months. Dr. Ivy gave ten of them injections of enterogastrone, three times a day, for seven months. Results: 16 of the untreated dogs (80%) developed ulcers; only one of the treated dogs (10%) was stricken...
...that tetraethyl lead in gasoline permits higher compression, higher speed engines. Now vice president of Ethyl Gasoline Corp., he is credited with over 100 patents, including many for air-conditioning refrigerants. In wheel chair and stretcher, Midgley attended last week's meeting, for in September he was stricken with infantile paralysis. But like his close friend, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he is conquering his handicap, still works hard as ever...
...days before he had planned to return to his jobs as Editorial Chairman of the CRIMSON, a member of the Student Council, and a member of the Leverett House Committee, Keith was stricken by the hand of fate in the form of an attack of acute appendicitis. He has spent the last week recuperating from his operation in the Eaglewood Hospital, a few miles from Tenafly...
...Antonio, Archbishop Lucey will have an ample field to exercise his liking for both social work and liberal thought. His chief problem: the spiritual and material welfare of the great mass of poverty-stricken Mexicans-100,000 of them-in his city's slummy West Side. To them, as to all the 653,000 Catholics in his province, he will present the Church as "the great bulwark of democracy" because it teaches tolerance, charity, the dignity of man and the supreme worth of the individual...