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...skeptically, Amador agreed. He sailed for Panama with Bunau-Varilla's promise of $100,000 to bribe Colombian troops; he hid his new flag under his clothing, wrapped around his torso. After arriving in Panama, Amador sent a coded cable: "Fate news bad powerful tiger. Urge vapor Colon." It meant that Colombian troops were arriving in five days, and the revolutionary plotters requested a U.S. steamer at Colon. Bunau-Varilla hurried to Washington and soon afterward the U.S.S. Nashville arrived at Colon?triggering the Panamanian revolution, which remained peaceful due to the presence of U.S. troops...
Most doctors remain as skeptical as ever about Laetrile. Indeed, in still another refutation of claims about the substance, scientists at the Battelle Memorial Institute reported that new experiments with mice showed Laetrile offered no benefits whatsoever in the treatment of either breast or colon cancers transplanted from humans. Dr. Joseph Ross, a U.C.L.A. professor of medicine, also raised the "strong possibility" that long-term ingestion of Laetrile could result in chronic poisoning similar to that from the starchy cassava root, which, like Laetrile, contains cyanide...
...shot through a blue filter, evocative of the dark world of the unconscious, which is also the locale of Langham's latest novel. Here, characters wrestling with their inadequacies starkly confront the twin problems of living and dying. Gielgud is himself dying--in the most undignified way imaginable, his colon having acquired a will of its own--as he composes the novel, his final attempt to resolve his tortured past. Struggling with mortality, he confronts at last his anguish over his wife's suicide, spending a sleepless night ordering his memories to achieve a form of aesthetic absolution...
...Named for its discoverer, the German pediatrician Theodor Escherich, who isolated it from feces in 1885, and for its habitat, the colon...
Like last summer, when he didn't notify Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon about his plans to invite heads of state for a summit conference at the Rockefellers' resort, he caught even statehood's advocates by surprise. So it seems unlikely that Ford simply meant to pay off Governor-elect Carlos Romero Barcelo, a statehooder and a closet Republican, for the convention votes Puerto Rican delegates gave him. A day or so after his pronunciamento, Romero's Washington commissioner Baltasar Corrada del Rio held a press conference to say that statehood now would be premature...