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Almost simultaneously with Nasser's deal for Communist arms, Libya agreed to establish diplomatic relations with Russia, negotiating the deal in Cairo with no notice to Western powers. Short, bland Russian Ambassador Nikolai Generalov, under the sponsorship of El Faki, wasted no time in making capital...
This world is one that makes genius tear its hair with rage, the world that drove William Blake and D. H. Lawrence half-mad with revulsion. But Hartley is too bland to feel revulsion. Like a scientist who wants to see what will happen, he throws a wench into Harold's work and a wolf into Isabel's life...
...latter year Dr. Paul Dudley White, already enjoying an international reputation as a cardiologist, reported on 200 coronary patients he had seen in his practice, emphasizing that many were still alive five to ten years following their first attack. In 1941 Dr. White, in conjunction with Dr. E.F. Bland, completed his study of these patients. Because treatment has hardly changed at all since then, these figures are still used in estimating the outlook after the first attack...
...Bland and White found that 19 percent of their 200 cases died within the first four weeks, 50 percent within ten years, and 31 percent were still alive after ten years. Of those who did not survive a decade, 30 percent died in the first year, 17 percent the second, 17 percent the third, and ten percent the fourth, with a rapid falling off thereafter...
Important factors for a prediction are hard to determine, but age is one of the most significant. Bland and White found that the average age at the onset of the first attack of those who lived ten years was 51, of those who died within ten years, 57, and of those who died immediately...