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...London Surgeon A. W. Lipmann Kessel calls it "espresso wrist," explains that he has found it in operators of Italian coffee machines, who have to make several strong turning movements of the wrist for each demitasse of black brew. They get inflammation and tightening of the tendon sheaths. The cure is hydrocortizone. To avoid relapses, the coffeemaker must learn to hold his wrist straight and stiff like a barmaid...
...score of the nation's top virus researchers put their heads together in Manhattan last week and collectively bemoaned the fact that they still can offer no preventive and no cure for the commonest of civilized man's ills, the common cold. All they could prescribe for sniffling humanity was hope...
Dizzy Spiral. Kubitschek expects his development program to help cure the inflation sickness by making more goods available. The puzzler here is how to finance the government's share of the program and at the same time slow down the currency presses. In the past few years, the government custom of printing new money to meet budget deficits has kept inflation spiraling dizzily. Retail prices have almost doubled within three years, rising faster than wages. Among Brazilian workers, the resulting sag in real wages has brought on a rancorous discontent...
...first night Taft attended the tent show of the Rev. Jack Coe of Dallas, who has been drawing 6,000 Miamians nightly, he saw no healing efforts, wrote a tolerantly favorable story. But the next night he witnessed some "cures"-and started digging. On the Herald's front page he showed that there had been no real changes in the physical conditions of Miamians the revivalist had claimed to cure. Taft found, for example, that a crippled woman who had ostentatiously flung aside a pair of crutches had never ordinarily used them. Taft also showed that Coe stood...
...angrily lumped Taft and the Herald with the Devil. But at week's end he had yet to accept the challenge, inspired by Taft's stories, of three ministers of the Miami Churches of Christ. They offered to pay Coe $2,500 if his "faith healing" would cure anyone who had been duly certified as ill by two physicians, and then certified as cured...