Word: colds
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...Tito will show Russia that we do not like her expansionist tendencies (this, by some idiot logic, is said to lower the tension of the cold war). It will also, if the Iron, Curtain countries cooperate, stimulate trade between East and West which will help Europe get on its economic feet and help break down the barrier now existent between the two regions...
...effect, trying to push our boundaries into the present Soviet sphere of influence. Russia is presumably reluctant to see this happen, and therefore we can expect a far warmer cold war in the Balkans. The trouble with warm cold wars is that they eventually become plain hot wars...
Tito's heresy can be of great value to the U. S. Since the danger to American security today is not communism but Russian expansion, Tito's break with the Cominform is an encouraging sign of abatement in the cold war. If his venture is successful, both Eastern and Western communists may adopt his doctrine of independence...
Before the year is out, almost every man, woman & child in the U.S. will have had at least one cold. The cost (in doctors' fees, drugs and lost wages) will top $1 billion. In a progress report on man's fight against the common cold, the current Journal of the American Medical Association glumly reports: no progress...
Said a Journal consultant, ignoring recent enthusiastic claims for anti-histaminics*nothing has been found to prevent or cure colds. This goes for salves, nose drops, gargles, vaccines and every other nostrum. All that the victim can do is try to get some relief. For a stuffy nose, drops are helpful (though sometimes they boomerang and cause renewed stuffiness). Aspirin soothes headache, fever and muscle pains which go with a cold. Alcohol, the Journal concedes, "in reasonable doses," expands the blood vessels and restores circulation to chilled skin and mucous membrane. But the old standby, rest in bed, is still...