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...mental notes that he could-two dogs barking, a child crying upstairs, some cracks in a plaster wall he could see. Heavy chains were padlocked around his neck, and the temperature was kept frigid. At mealtime one of the gang would alert the prisoner of his approach by coughing; Empain would then have to draw a hood over his head and cough to indicate that he was wearing it. His food came from tin cans, which the kidnapers tossed into the backyard when he was finished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Empain's Ordeal | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Also immobilized by the viral onslaught was the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md., where 3,000 or more of the 4,300 midshipmen were confined to their rooms and dosed with aspirin and cough medicine. Actually, it appears that the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., had been hit by an earlier outbreak but this was not publicized. Before the end of January, 200 to 300 cadets were reporting to sick call daily at West Point. That epidemic has passed its peak but has spread across the Hudson to Vassar. Says Dr. Rita Jaeger, health director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Invasion from the Steppes | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...anyone has any of these symptoms and wishes to share them with me, please cough into an envelope and send them to The Crimson, where our master lab technicians will isolate the offending germs and transfer them to me so that I can write a first-hand report on each new agent...

Author: By Marc M. Sadowsky, | Title: Basketball for the Beflued and Befuddled | 2/16/1978 | See Source »

...enough people have sickened and died to meet that criterion. This is no comfort to the hundreds of thousands of Americans who have been laid low with influenza. No words and no wonder drugs help to lower the initial fever, ease the aching head and bones, stop the hacking cough and make rubbery legs feel strong again. Dr. Donald O. Lyman, director of New York's Bureau of Disease Control, advises: "I'd stay in bed, let people fawn over me, drink my fruit juice, and take my tincture of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: A Mean A/Texas Attacks | 1/23/1978 | See Source »

...Rajneesh himself. They buy orange robes at the ashram's boutique, then wash thoroughly. No one may approach the asthmatic guru with any trace of dust, perfume or hair oil. Two tall blonde vestals at the gate carefully sniff at all who seek entrance. A single cough during the rite can be the cause for ejection. Then, reports TIME'S New Delhi bureau chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: God Sir at Esalen East | 1/16/1978 | See Source »

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