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Beyond the waiting room is the treatment room. Syringes filled with an amber fluid lie on a counter. Along one wall are chairs for four patients, and behind them are tanks of compressed air. The treatment: the patient sits in a chair and an attendant fits respirator tubes in his nostrils. After a flick of a valve, the patient inhales a mixture of air and Dr. Lincoln's bacteriophage* in one of its two varieties, Alpha or Beta. Patients who cannot walk indoors for treatment can get curb service in their cars...
...first test is the visual test. Holding the tulip-shaped glass up to the 'light, each member carefully guages the color of the wine and tries to describe it. The most common colors are ruby, garnet, topaz, amber, or green-gold. The wine is also examined for sedimentation and described as either cloudy or clear. The viscosity is examined to determine whether the wine is syrupy, oily, or watery...
Belief in medicinal magic is not confined to remote hamlets; in the heart of Mexico City is a shop that does a thriving business in the stuff brujas prescribe, including dried toads and bits of amber. And not all the clients of brujas are unlettered Indians. A U.S. woman living in Taxco went to a bruja recently to get something to cure her little granddaughter's chronic car sickness. The prescription: a copper coin plastered to the child's navel. According to the grandmother, the charm worked like a charm...
Married. Cornel Wilde, 36, cinemactor (Forever Amber), and Jean Wallace (nee Walasek), supporting player more widely publicized for her off-screen capers; he for the second time, she for the third (No. 1: Franchot Tone); in Santa Monica...
Divorced. Cinemactor Cornel (Forever Amber, A Song to Remember) Wilde, 35: by sometime Cinemactress Patricia (The Fabulous Texan) Knight, 31; after 14 years of marriage, one daughter, on & off separations since 1947; in Reno...