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Rebellious Albania might be the least of Il Duce's worries, but it was the most chronic. A people whose "nationalism does not whisper because their country is small," the Albanians had never accepted the Fascist conquest of 1939. Now patriot resistance, fanned by new hope, was mounting. It could be measured by Rome's frantic hunt for a popular puppet leader. For Prime Minister in Tirana Mussolini chose tricky, turncoat Ekrem Libohova, once ex-King Zog's Foreign Minister. This was Albania's fourth "government...
...attend and no class would have more visitors than it could easily accomodate in unused seats. Nor would the fact that lectures are pointed at men who have previous knowledge of the context necessarily hamper the success of the plan. Experience with the Nieman fellows and other graduate students, chronic samplers of Harvard teaching, has shown that no professor has to alter his lecture or make any introductory remarks before addressing an interested outsider...
Doctors dread the chronic external ulcers which sometimes accompany diseases like diabetes or varicose veins, when blood circulation is poor. They know that the feeble blood supply will probably mean slow healing...
...Meyer Naide of the University of Pennsylvania last week told* of an experimental treatment which worked on nine out of 15 patients: as a chronic ulcer does not get enough blood from inside, he supplied it from outside by a spray of blood drawn from the patient or dried blood plasma diluted with only one fourth the usual amount of water. This poultice dried to form a clot over the ulcer; treatments were repeated as needed to retain the scab. One or two applications relieved pain; the ulcers which healed required from one to 20 treatments...
...left his family a few years ago to start a chicken farm. The strange eczema-like rash, which had grown redder and flakier for five years, soon faded on hospital diet, but the patient was still sick with other ailments unconnected with egg white - a urinary tract infection, chronic bronchitis, heart disease, cancer...