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...drinkers both at home & abroad. Michigan's belligerent Democratic Congressman John Dingell trumpeted that the decision could mean sure death to thousands of troops. Beer is a "wholesome food drink," he declared, but the water in Korea is so full of typhus, dysentery and cholera that it is "deadlier than bullets." Cried Dingell: "Human beings usually have 33 feet of guts, but I bet the man who made that decision doesn't have three feet...
...bombings were going to get worse. More airstrips in Korea would enable U.S. jets and Mustangs to give better support for ground troops; Red field positions and supply lines would be chewed up with deadlier regularity. The effects of Rosy O'Donnell's strategic strikes with the B-29s would take longer to hit the Communists at the front, but when they were felt, they would hurt...
...this form of the disease, rarer but far deadlier than spinal polio, the virus attacks the bulb or brain stem. The iron lung often will not work on bulbar polio because the patient's breathing is jerky. with an irregular rhythm; his intake and release of air cannot be synchronized with the iron lung's regular beat. But bulbar polio has one feature which fitted in well with Dr. Sarnoff's theory: it generally leaves the phrenic nerve undamaged...
Funds & Fancies. Because it strikes tragically at children, polio has received more publicity (especially after Polio Victim Franklin Roosevelt became President) than many a deadlier ailment.* To loosen purse strings, fund raisers have played on parents' heart strings. They have emphasized the bafflement of medical science in the face of so tricky an enemy as polio. Over the years, parents have become so impressed that they can scarcely think of polio without panic...
...Glenn Ford). Since wickedness does not pay, Carmen at last ends up with a knife in her own alluring torso. As the gypsy cigarette girl, Rita has a chance to spit, snarl, bite, slap, kick, dance, sing (in Spanish), pull a knife and, of course, exercise her deadlier blandishments. The film's limitations are largely those of its star, though it manages some tension in such rough & tumble scenes as the one where Don José and Garcia (Victor Jory) hack at each other with trowel-sized knives. The story is based on the Prosper...