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...Enlightens), president of the Indo-Chinese Communist Party, who, with his little goat beard, looks something like a Mongoloid Trotsky (see cut). Even for a "coco" (as French politicians call the Stalinists), Ho has had a colorful history. Onetime photographer, cabin boy and socialist, he took the cure in Moscow, subsequently turned up (1924) at the Soviet Consulate in Boston, and later (1927) as an aide to Michael Borodin, who, during the Chinese Nationalist Revolution, was Russia's Grey Eminence advising the Kuomintang. Ho has a War Minister named Vo Nguyen-giap, who hates the French, because, he says...
...patients (whites, Negroes, Orientals) raised their first community Christmas tree. Major Hans G. Hornbostel, whose wife entered six months ago, played Santa Claus. In Washington, leprologists, gathered at a special conference, made the celebration official. They were ready to announce the first real hope of a leprosy cure...
...ailment caused by blood-vessel constriction that impedes circulation to the legs and feet. University of Michigan physicians reported that a nerve-blocking injection of tetraethyl ammonium dilates blood vessels, relieves Buerger's disease (as well as certain other disorders resulting from blocked circulation). The drug does not cure, but it may stop pain for as long as six months...
...each year of gastric cancer alone (in the U.S.: 80,000). By Mayo Clinic standards, the Russians concede that Russian cancer treatment is backward: Russian doctors are less skillful in diagnosis, have three times as many deaths after operation (23%) and less than half as many five-year "cures" (no recurrence) of gastric cancer (12-14%). But the U.S.S.R. is pushing cancer research in twelve cancer institutes and in many hospitals, has made cancer-fighting its No. i public health project. Its researchers have found promising leads toward diagnosis and cure...
...similar dramatic operation, Dr. Wiener last week transfused another Rh baby (see cut). Complete transfusion is not new (Wiener himself, and others, had done it before), but the technique has been so perfected in recent months that doctors now consider it a tested cure for erythroblastosis...