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...Altschule warned against premature enthusiasm for the cure, saying that broader clinical and laboratory studies remain to be done...
...having failed to make anything of his own department, tries constantly to interfere with other departments and gain control of the central administration." If such a man becomes boss, there soon develops "an actual competition in stupidity, people pretending to be even more brainless than they are." The only cure for such a situation, according to Parkinson, is the old Trojan Horse ploy: "An individual of merit penetrates the outer defenses . . . babbling about golf and giggling feebly, losing documents and forgetting names . . . Only when he has reached high rank does he suddenly throw off the mask . . . With shrill screams...
Jorge got the news at a luxury-lined private hospital where he was being treated for kidney trouble. It seemed to effect a miraculous cure. Jorge leaped out of bed and into his Mercedes-Benz, announced that the first thing he and his friends planned to do was board a plane for Venezuela to pay their respects to their old boss Perón. He regretted Kelly would not be with them. "Kelly's fate," he said, "has saddened us all, and I myself am prepared to do anything...
...last week to grapple with what Xenophon Zolotas, governor of the Bank of Greece, wryly termed "numismatic plethora." The inflated phrase aptly described the basic cause of inflation-a common crisis of too much money and too few goods. Not even the Greeks had a word for the cure. Yet all knew that the fund's work in stabilizing currencies by strategic loans was one of the free world's most powerful weapons...
...Cure. Near Olney, Ill., irritated by wasps that buzzed around the barn, Farm Hand Harold Weber decided to smoke them out, burned more than 5,000 bales of hay, 2,000 bushels of barley, 200 loads of manure, a utility shed, a garage, three drums of gasoline and the barn...