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...catching," and therefore far more common, with 300,000 new cases reported annually, as against 20,000 for syphilis. The U.S. Public Health Service believes that the true figures, withheld because of embarrassment or ignorance, are closer to 1,200,000 and 300,000. The problem is not the cure; though some strains of both the syphilis and gonorrhea germs are resistant to penicillin, there is still no venereal disease that cannot be cured in its early stages by antibiotics. The trouble lies in finding VD victims, finding the person who infected them, and finding the contacts to whom they...
...deep thinker on the side ("The whole world is a bloody sickness"). Bad Nazis perform the usual tortures, while protesting "We are a civilized people." Good Germans lament, "What a day we live in!" Arnold even has the chutzpah to have a Jewish housewife prescribe the hot-chicken-soup cure for an ailing dog. Worse, he blithely puts 1967 American words in 1943 Danish mouths: after deciding "that wasn't the name of the game," a member of the underground "made book with himself...
...patients to make full disclosure of symptoms and conditions to physicians. Such confidence is deemed necessary to the efficacy of treatment. This is especially so in the case of state hospitals for the mentally ill, where complete confidence in the attending physicians is a sine qua non to the cure...
Pack 'Em In. The possibility arises that Goldman himself is Dorff, ironically, making a new life for himself as a Jew. "This isn't a rest cure," he barks at one point. "Back to work, scum. Nobody gets out except through the chimney!" Soon, a team of Israeli agents appears. They kidnap him and take him to Israel to stand trial...
Krupp died as lonely as he had lived. Staffers noticed that his silver-grey Porsche had not appeared at the company's Essen quarters for a month. Krupp, in fact, was dying of bronchial cancer, which had already advanced beyond cure when it was discovered late in June. By mid-July, he was confined to his 28-room "bungalow" near the villa. When he died, his only attendant was a nurse...