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Only recently have doctors recognized cat-scratch disease to account for the previously unexplained aches and fevers that occasionally afflict cat fanciers. And there is still plenty for doctors to learn about the oddly varied and sometimes serious forms that the disease can take, says the A.M.A. Journal. Latest information: it can be caught by a person who may not even have been scratched...
...effort to conquer some of the assorted sniffles, coughs and other discomforts generally but misleadingly known as the "common cold." The core of the program, said Surgeon General Luther L. Terry, will be to develop and test vaccines against viruses already known to cause many of the infections that afflict the average American three or more times a year, keep an estimated 125,000 workers (and probably even more schoolchildren) at home every day, cost industry about $3 billion a year, and spur the sale of at least $100 million worth of tablets, drops, sprays, gargles and unguents...
...inefficiency and favoritism. The major problems that existed at the time of Gandhi's death are still to be solved. India's economy is a schizophrenic mixture of state and private enterprise. Religious fanaticism and factionalism remain strong, despite earnest efforts to overcome them. Poverty and illiteracy afflict the vast majority of the people, and the birth rate spirals upward at the rate of approximately 10 million new mouths to feed each year...
Premature Palsy. What Northrop was suffering from was a premature case of the palsy soon to afflict all airframe companies in the age of aerospace. Fast disappearing were the World War II days of mass production of aircraft with relatively little emphasis on quality control. In the swiftest industrial sequence in history, the U.S. was shifting from piston-engine planes to jets, from jets to missiles, and on beyond to the incredibly precise devices required for space exploration. Between 1953 and 1961, Pentagon purchases of manned aircraft plummeted from 9,000 to 1,500 per year, while Government spending...
Similar foul-ups afflict much of the Cuban economy. The Communist bloc barters oil. guns, MIG jets, some machinery and foodstuffs for sugar, plus other Cuban produce such as tuna. But the Reds do not, and apparently cannot, conduct the $1 billion two-way trade in the range of goods that Cuba once enjoyed with...