Shoplifting Racket Costs Stores But Skews to Shoppers
A feature on shoplifting as a multimillion dollar industry with seasonal spikes. It outlines thieves' methods, professional boosters versus amateurs, and store protection tactics including employee clinics, coded signals, booster boxes, and display layouts to curb losses. It notes losses add to prices paid by honest customers and highlights the social dynamics around shoplifters and security staff.
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Cynthia Lowry
AP Newsfeatures
New York
Whitney
Usu
China reports ancient cure for sleeping sickness trial
Tokyo dispatch notes Peiping Radio report that Red China is studying ancient oriental medical lore for disease cures. A ministry study group includes doctors trained in modern methods and in ancient traditions. They claim a 200 year old sleeping sickness prescription cured 90 percent of 54 cases tested.
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Peiping
Red China
Ministry of Public Health
Peiping Radio
Granddaughter's Clover Find Brings Nickels From Granddad
Spalding Nebraska report shows Charlene Kavalee and playmates Ollie and Max Muller gathering 130 four leaf clovers in granddad Emil Favalee’s yard. He pays a nickel for each clover, totaling $6.50, highlighting a light community moment.
USIA Book Translation Program broadens world reading
Overseas USIA office in Tehran requested Atomsk by Carmichael Smith but found it out of print. Franklin L. Burdette supplied a carbon manuscript from Paul Linebarger, enabling Persian translation. 2,113 foreign editions in 44 languages, 19.6 million copies. last year 590 translations totaling 5.13 million copies.
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Kenneth C. Gilmore
Ashington
NEA
United States Information Agency
Tehran
Iran
Washington
Atomsk
Carmichael Smith
Franklin L. Burdette
USIA
Burdette
Paul M. A. Linebarger
Tennan
USSA
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tokyo
Jackie Robinson
Bill Roeder
Bangkok
John J. Flaherts
New York City
U. S
Haven't Heard These Ooooo Last of Yahgans Ninety-Year-Old
A National Geographic team meets Julia the last full blood Yahgan on Navarino Island near Tierra del Fuego. Her age hovers around 90 as descendents live in a fragile shelter while Julia stays isolated, symbolizing the tribe's fading presence.
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Washington
Tierra del Fuego
South America
Julia
National Geographic Society
South Atlantic
Chile
Navarino Island
Jacques L'Hermte
Bearie
Charles
Darwin
Ushuaia
Thomas Bridges
Tierra Della Fuego
Man pays debt for baby he fathered 19 years ago
In Novata Oklahoma a man walked into Dr. S A Lang’s office and paid 25 dollars to the receptionist claiming it was payment in full for delivering their baby girl 19 years ago. He said the bill had bothered him for a long time and the daughter now has a child of her own.
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Farmington Avenue
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Conn
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Huck
Faithful Jim
Harvard
Novata, Okla
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