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Arthritis Due to Infections. Once a major cause of arthritis, infections by common bacteria (notably gonorrhea and tuberculosis) no longer give the rheumatologists much concern. The joint symptoms, like the underlying disease, can be treated swiftly and effectively with such drugs as the sulfas, antibiotics and isoniazid. Can now be cured in nearly every case...
...artists. The Carracci's love of the local color of Bologna's narrow streets set the tone for realism; their caricatures created a style that Hogarth later cashed in on. Their reordering of the classical tradition was carried on by Poussin and the neoclassicism of Ingres; their concern for formal harmonies is still alive in cubism and 20th century modern architecture...
...economy growing too fast? The question is one that thoughtful U.S. businessmen are pondering with increasing concern. Instead of slowing down, as most businessmen had expected last spring, business has boomed higher and higher, picking up momentum every month. Warns Sears, Roebuck Chairman Theodore V. Houser: "With industry operating at capacity, inflationary pressures are created which spill over into labor, new materials, prices and demands for all forms of goods and services." Adds David Rockefeller, executive vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank: "We have reached a point where we stand on the verge of trying to grow too fast...
...Banks and the highest bank discount rate (3%) in 23 years, consumer credit is still rising, has climbed some $4 billion since August 1955 to an annual rate of $37.5 billion. What worries Sears's Houser and others even more than rising credit is the apparent lack of concern over mounting inflation. They fear that the U.S. is lulling itself into a state of mind which accepts inflation as the normal, natural way of life. "Inflation?" says one San Francisco banker. "Sure, we've got inflation, and we're getting used to it." The question: If everyone...
...economists question the fact that the U.S. economy is on basically stable ground, or that the ballooning U.S. population will eventually absorb all the goods-and more-that industry can produce. Yet there is a very real concern that U.S. business, its eyes firmly fixed on the long term, will not see or accept the short-run dangers of an inflationary spiral that could seriously cripple the economy...