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Last week, regretfully judged too old and unsafe for future Septembers, the proud old fighters purred peacefully over London for the last time. Hardly had Spitfire Sugar Love 574 passed out of sight of the nostalgic crowd on the Horse Guards Parade when its engine began to cough and sputter. Losing altitude rapidly, the pilot, Air Vice Marshal Harold John Maguire, spotted a green and empty sports field and prepared to belly-land on it. As the Oxo and Old Hollingtonian cricket teams, which had just retired to the pavilion for their half-time tea, watched in amazement, the stricken...
When lunchtime came, Mrs. Lockwood opened jars of baby food, arranged them on a clerk's desk. The children dug in greedily, splattered strained apricots and sweet potatoes generously over a stack of tax reports. Robbie started to cough on his food, and a nerve-shredded clerk told Mrs. Lockwood not to let him choke. "Mind your own business," she snapped. "It's my baby, not yours...
...type, got into the sideline of saving dogs' lives by accident. Where he had lived, in Montreal and Boston, heartworm was no problem. But in the South (where the worm larvae are carried by flies or mosquitoes), it afflicts many dogs. Caught soon after the animal begins to cough and wheeze, it can be treated with arsenical drugs. What interested Dr. Segal was the advanced cases, too far gone for drugs, which a vet drew to his attention...
...microscope. The "Pap smear" is nc' done routinely in hundreds of U.S. laboratories, for an estimated total of 3.000,000 tests a year-most of them for healthy women wisely having regular examinations. Vast ingenuity has gone into extensions of the Pap test: aerosols to make a smoker cough up deep mucus to reveal lung cancer; swallowed balloons and brushes to catch cells from stomach cancer; special washings to reveal disease in the large bowel and rectum...
...second, among one-and two-year-olds. Now it is worst among the one-to three-year-olds. Bowing to the statistics, the Public Health Service has recommended that doctors begin polio shots for youngsters two to three months old along with vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough...