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...weeks or months, instead of years-but it is far more disabling while it lasts, and if untreated may cause death. No American serviceman goes untreated. Military discipline requires that all take chloroquine (best-known U.S. trade name: Aralen) twice a week as a preventive. If a man is bitten by malarial mosquitoes and develops the disease despite all precautions, he is put in a hospital and given more intensive chloroquine treatment, sometimes with the addition of quinine. Refractory Strain. Malaria parasites have complex life cycles that differ with different species. Antimalarial drugs work by attacking the parasites when they...
...murders, a photogenic chase across Central Park, and a maddening game of mental gymnastics. Scenarist Peter Stone (Charade) varies the pace with droll asides, most of them knowingly shrugged off by Matthau as the reluctant snoop who abhors firearms and acts of heroism, and struggles gamely to look hard-bitten while guzzling Dr. Pepper...
...thing, an estimated 5,000 soldiers of the Greek regular army have filtered into the island and have been enrolled in the National Guard under the command of hard-bitten General George Grivas, who led the guerrilla war against the British back in the 1950s. His well-trained, 14,000-man force is now arrayed against some 12,000 Turkish Cypriots mostly armed with vintage rifles and shotguns...
...women are portrayed with equal skill. Lila Kedrova plays the old courtesan. Draped in bitten furs and clutching a parasol, she is grotesque, pitiful--and yet you can believe that once she was beautiful enough to charm all those admirals. Irene Pappas plays the young widow with the same pride and dignity she brought to her performance as Electra...
...Dead Awaken. Certainly it is hard to distinguish Ibsen's shortcomings from those of director and cast. The Theatre Company's major mistake, I think, was to produce When We Dead Awaken in the first place. In their quest for unusual modern plays, they seem this time to have bitten off more than they--or possibly any company--can chew...