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Their symbol is a five-pointed star, its two lower points exaggerated as in a child's awkward drawing. Below are the words Brigate Rosse (Red Brigades). This shadowy underground organization, with an estimated hard-core membership of no more than a few hundred, has become the deadliest and the most dreaded of Italy's far-left extremist groups. Since the Moro kidnaping last week, the Red Brigades have also become the most hunted...
Penicillin's reputation as a miracle drug, won on the battlefields of World War II, has been repeatedly proved in combatting one of the commonest and deadliest forms of pneumonia: the type caused by berry-shaped bacteria appropriately called pneumococci. Though increasingly resistant strains of these microbes have appeared occasionally in recent years, larger doses of the drug-and a whole battery of newer antibiotics-have managed to subdue them. Now from South Africa comes an alarming report about the appearance of one or more strains of pneumococci that largely defy the germ-killing powers not only of penicillin...
...wicked weather also brought drought, flood and one major tragedy In Johnstown, Pa. (pop. 41,000), site of the deadliest deluge in U.S. history,* a seven-hour thunderstorm produced floods that left at least 46 people dead more than 50,000 homeless and an estimated $200 million in damages...
...have seen studies on highway deaths," says Jacques Couture, an athletic, bearded Quebecois of 37, who presides at the Jim Russell International Racing Drivers School, near Mont Tremblant. "Speed is only the No. 3 factor. Equipment failure is second. According to these studies, the deadliest killer is driver error...
...microbes that cause typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever), hematologists, lexicologists, and veterinarians. All the lab scientists and technicians wore protective masks, gowns and gloves and worked under exhaust hoods. But it was not felt necessary to invoke use of the sanctum sanctorum, the "hot lab," where only the deadliest organisms known to cause fast, fulminating and fatal diseases are handled...