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...among the Vietnamese. But last year the Viet Cong terrorists began to take aim at the malaria fighters; since then, at least twelve have been killed and 58 are missing. Upland malaria is the more dangerous variety. On the coastal plains, three out of four cases are of the "benign tertian" variety caused by the parasite Plasmodium vivax, and only one case out of four is "malignant tertian," caused by Plasmodium falciparum. In the hills, the proportions are reversed. Falciparum malaria usually does not last as long as the vivax form-only weeks or months, instead of years...
Obviously, it would be foolish for the West to pretend that Communism in 1965 is the same monolithic menace it once was; but it is equally nonsensical to regard Communism as a legitimate or benign form of government, or to suggest, as the London Times did recently, that Marxism may have "ceased to be an organized international movement...
...knobs seen by Dr. Sheldon Swift at the Permanente Medical Group in Panorama City made a deep impression; the British-born dermatologist had never seen anything like them around the muddy Mersey, where he went to medical school. Dr. Swift reported in the A.M.A. Journal that the knobs were benign tumors, made up mainly of an overgrowth of the horny layer of the skin. They were not to be confused with the socially less acceptable housemaid's knee, which is a bursitis. Dr. Swift saw no reason for surgical removal of the knobs. He noted that they usually went...
...TUMORS. A noncancerous but far from benign tumor is the angiofibroma, which develops in the nasal passages and equips itself with a huge blood supply. When the tumor is removed by ordinary surgery, patients lose an average three pints of blood; some have lost as much as eight, and died on the operating table. At the University of Michigan, Dr. Walter Work and Dr. Mansfield F. W. Smith pioneered a cryo-surgical technique for the removal of angiofibromas with negligible bleeding...
There are some dubious democracies that are evolving toward more freedom; unlike being pregnant, it is possible to be a little bit democratic. Perhaps the textbook example of how a benign dictatorship can encourage democracy is Ayub Khan, who remains a military strongman but in seven years has moved Pakistan to the point where he himself ran scared for President in this year's election-and against a 71-year-old woman at that. Similarly, Thailand, now under semiautocratic rule, is preparing a constitution. The Shah of Iran has mobilized the intellectual resources of his nation for economic, social...