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Asked why he chose to return to the Soviet sector of Germany following the War, Bertolt Brecht retedly explained, "I feel like a etor with just enough penicllin to cure one person of syphilis. Shall se it on the evil old lecher. . or pregnant young prostitute?" hat trenchant disenchantment! was he simply humoring his stern friends...
...stucco building in the hills behind Zurich, Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba was ostensibly taking a "nature cure." Actually, he was hard at work-as an invited friend of both sides-directing the elaborate maneuvers designed to bring an end to the six-year-old Algerian...
...diseases caused by small viruses, mono has no cure. Patients are kept in bed. with absolute rest, to protect the spleen and liver. Some doctors believe that in severe cases drugs of the cortisone type help reduce the inflammation and therefore safeguard the liver. Two weeks in bed and another of complete rest are usually enough, with good doctoring, to ensure full recovery...
Parts one and two (regardless of the order in which they are read) present a comprehensive and consistent synthesis of the trouble and a feasible approach to its cure. The urgent need is to get more teachers capable of fusing the three elements of English--language, literature and composition--into a structured unity with linguistics as the matrix. The economic waste caused by the present situation (e.g., funds and personnel for remedial English courses in colleges) is of equal interest to government and private interests but for different reasons. Congress hopes that direct aid to colleges to finance better training...
...Sure Cure. There are plenty of critics of modern basketball and its pellmell, high-scoring format. Says Fordham's Coach Johnny Bach disgustedly: "I look for an N.B.A. team, possibly the Celtics, to score over 200 points some time this season." Since shooting is forced by the clock and favored by the rules on fouls, the N.B.A. players are happily turning into "gunners"-once a term of contempt for the men who did nothing but shoot. "The kids are making shots we wouldn't even dare take," says Detroit's Coach McGuire, a crack playmaker during...