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Paradoxically, only a few hundred miles to the northwest, the Congo's lush Equator and Leopoldville provinces had bananas, nuts and palm oil aplenty. But the transport breakdown and regional feuding kept normal trading at a standstill. Only hope lies in the crash feeding programs undertaken by the United Nations, whose officials estimate that a minimum of 120 tons of food must be distributed daily, but until recently have had to make do with less than half that volume. To fill its supply pipelines, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization is canvassing U.N. member nations...
...formation of brain cells, since it accounts for about 2% of the brain's total solid weight. They know it is the chief ingredient in gallstones. They suspect it plays a role in the production of adrenal hormones, and they believe it is essential to the transport of fats throughout the circulatory system. But they cannot fully explain the process of its manufacture by the human liver. Although the fatty protein molecules, carried in the blood and partly composed of cholesterol, are water soluble, cholesterol itself is insoluble, and cannot be destroyed by the body. "A remarkable substance," says...
Within 25 days the runway and buildings were completed. When the job was finished, the U.S. delivered eight surplus B-26 light bombers to the Guatemalan government. Last week five B-26s were at the new strip, along with one C-54 four-engined transport and four C46 twin-engined Curtiss Commandos. The strip will accommodate these ships, but to say that it will handle jets was an overstatement: it is only 6,000 ft. long, marginal for jets in Guatemala's hot weather...
...supposed to serve only until Germany was reunified and Berlin restored as the rightful capital. In fact, its provisional character became a symbol of West Germans' refusal to acquiesce in the division of their country, and, as such, was sedulously maintained. Eleven years later the Ministry of Transport is still over a bank, Atomic Affairs in a hotel, Treasury in a castle on the Rhine. The diplomatic set is even more far-flung- the Russians in a former resort hotel ten miles out of town, the Chileans upstairs over a Woolworth store...
...even without overt aggression, Boun Oum and Phoumi faced bitter days ahead. Though Phoumi declared that all he wanted was "a neutral Laos," the Communists were smarting for revenge, and from the Pathet Lao came an order of the day: "Develop guerrilla warfare powerfully. Destroy supply lines, communications and transport...