Word: coughings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another matter. Believed to be caused by many kinds of viruses, and called primary atypical pneumonia (PAP) by doctors, the disease presents an uncomfortable array of symptoms. The patient usually does not get suddenly ill; he gradually gets coldlike symptoms, distressing headaches, rising temperature, chills, and a severe cough. The sickness may last weeks, though it rarely kills...
...work. They separated PAP patients from recruits suffering from other respiratory diseases, took sputum for culturing and blood samples for testing. They found that 68% of the recruits displaying PAP symptoms were infected with Eaton Agent. And they found that Declomycin "significantly reduced the duration of fever, rales, cough, malaise and fatigue...
Smooth Kisser, Buddy. Spang and Gilbert continued to diversify, bought Paper Mate pens in 1955 for $15 million, began to market a line of proprietary drugs (Thorexin, cough syrup and cough tablets) in 1957-and continued bringing out a stream of toilet accessories (latest: an aerosol deodorant) to boost Gillette sales. To combat the inroads of electric shavers, Gillette's technicians went to work to perfect a sharper, smoother-cutting Super Blue Blade (by chemically treating the edges of the steel). Introduced last year, the Super Blue now accounts for 45% of Gillette's blade sales...
...defiance of its spider-thin plot line, The Caretaker is completely absorbing-the kind of drama that leaves playgoers too intent to cough because they are forced to follow the play on several levels of meaning...
...sick, and he is just the doctor it needs. "There are a lot of things wrong with our Western free world," said Behrendt last week, "not the least of which is the God-damned attitude of slow motion, indifference, shortsightedness toward political problems. But that's whooping cough compared with the cancer from the Soviet Union. One can cure whooping cough, but one dies of cancer...