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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High blood pressure, by itself, is not a disease and never killed anybody. Even in its commonest disease form, which doctors call "essential hypertension," damage to the kidneys and other organs is the result of changes in the small arteries, not of the high blood pressure. Yet countless people start worrying themselves sick when they are told they have a high reading...
Says Viereck: "We don't need a 'century of the common man'; we have it already, "and it has only produced the commonest man, the impersonal and irresponsible and uprooted massman . . . The century of the common man means a century of sterile and tyrannic philistinism, whether it be a philistinism of right or of left, of Colonel Blimp or of Comrade Blimp. A century that returns to the humanist ideal of the individual man must hold equally aloof from George Babbitt and Gaylord Babbitt...
Since "Life with Father" was written, the father-figure has become one of the commonest targets in American humor. Frank Gilbreth, the head of the household in "Cheaper by the Dozen" is a typical autocrat--an efficiency expert who started married life with a determination to have twelve children and forthwith realized this goal. Like all his predecessors in the history of household autocracy, Gilbreth's strongest quality is his refusal to be cowed by the social practices of his neighbors. The movie's funniest scenes center around his demands that the women in the family wear bathing suits that...
...test tube and in laboratory animals, terramycin kills heavy growths of bacteria which cause one of the commonest forms of pneumonia, streptococcal infections, typhoid fever, and many intestinal and urinary tract infections. These are the disease germs against which antibiotics already in use are most effective. So if terramycin shows up well in the tests, now beginning, on humans, it will give doctors an extra weapon of a familiar type, rather than a basically...
...hospitals,* but the result offered hope that other such outbreaks might be arrested or avoided. Last August, babies born in Port Huron's red brick, ivy-covered hospital and sent home as normal began to be readmitted with diarrhea. Some died. Laboratory tests indicated none of the three commonest causes of the disease (bacteria of the Shigella or Salmonella groups, or a virus). In October the disease invaded the hospital's nursery. To cut down cross-infection, babies were kept in their mothers' rooms. But by year's end the death toll had reached...