Word: cholerae
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...both spiritual duty and lifetime dream. More than 1,200,000 pilgrims entered Mecca to carry out the prayers and ablutions of Islam's most sacred ritual (see following color pictures of last year's hajj). Luckily, this year there were no outbreaks of typhoid or cholera like those that have sometimes turned the hajj into a pilgrimage of death rather than spiritual rebirth...
...predecessor was one James C. Davis, an eight-term Congressman who kept getting returned to Washington because of Georgia's unfair county-unit electoral system (which was loaded in favor of rural counties as against urban areas), his unflagging efforts to secure appropriations to fight hog cholera and water hyacinths, and his diehard segregationism. Then the county-unit system was overturned by the federal courts, the district was redrawn to include more of Atlanta and less of farm counties, and in 1962 along came Weltner to run against Davis. He had imposing Southern credentials. One of his great-grandfathers...
...suburbs of New Delhi. Five thousand troops labored to plug the gaps in the dikes, but they were too late to save Delhi's water system from pollution by night soil and garbage caught up in the torrent. Stomach ailments have jumped 30%, and doctors fear outbreaks of cholera and hepatitis...
...briefly and inconspicuously reported by British and French newspapers; last month Radio Liberty, an emigre broadcasting outfit in Munich, beamed the rumor back to Russia. Among the circumstantial supporting evidence: 1) the entire Rostov region was suddenly declared off limits to foreign tourists in June, supposedly because of a cholera epidemic, although a major track meet was held on July 8 and Russian citizens were allowed to move freely in the allegedly disease-ridden area; 2) Novocherkassk imposed a curfew on young people, to remain in effect for two years; 3) Nikita Khrushchev's second in command, Frol Kozlov...
...Calcutta, world's greatest reservoir of cholera because 5,000,000 people cannot get enough filtered water and are reduced to using the raw, sewage-polluted Hooghly River, WHO is represented by U.S. sanitary engineers planning water supply and sewerage systems to bring cholera and other plagues under control...