Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Enemies of Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, the man who is strategic Iraq's chief bulwark against a Communist takeover, charge that he himself flirted with Communism in his youth. Kassem himself recently told a TIME correspondent: "I don't care about parties . . . They can call us Communists or anything else if they like." Incidentally, the main reason Kassem rides through Baghdad every afternoon is not to receive the applause of the crowds, but to visit his suburban home for a bath: the Defense Ministry, where Kassem sleeps, has no bathroom...
...Colonel Wasfi Tahir (who, incredibly, held the same job under Nuri). Kassem himself may have failed to see the dangers in the bargain; his enemies charge that he himself flirted with Communism in his youth, and not long ago he was still capable of declaring: "I don't care about parties . . . They can call us Communists or anything else, if they like...
...marrow transplants worked in these cases after so many failures? Dr. Jammet had taken care to match the donors' blood by ten factors (most transfusion matching covers only two), had even picked men of the same eye and hair color and body build. Beyond that, he could only guess. Perhaps it was because his patients had been healthy before the accident, then had suddenly received such a whopping jolt of radiation that it could not fail to knock out their marrow function-including antibody formation. Frozen marrow keeps for at least six months; if it can be kept longer...
Questioned about what Harvard called a "firm offer" for the 131/2 acre site, Pompeo replied, "Whether it's an offer is not something on which I'd care to comment." Later he told Councillor Alfred E. Vellucci, "If you call it an offer...
Reward for Struggles. The modern American, says Dr. Dubos, is kidding himself about how healthy he is: a man past 45 has little greater life expectancy than had his grandfathers; he has the world's highest living standard, but 10% of his income* goes for medical care. "One out of every four citizens will have to spend at least some months or years in a mental asylum. One may wonder indeed whether the pretense of superior health is not itself rapidly becoming a mental aberration...