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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sixth gravestone and saying, "Well, six down, three to go." Though he once actually fell short of a parliamentary majority, he managed to hold on to power by a judicious distribution of parliamentary secretaryships and minor portfolios. He survived brawls and Cabinet mutinies, ruled, until his death, with a shaky majority...
Mitchum is an American who killed his first man at the age of 13 to avenge his father's death. He ran away to Mexico and grew up a pistolero in the service of a provincial dictator. While he says he is from Missouri, he sounds like an Aztec exchange student after six terms at C.C.N.Y. He fords the Rio Grande on a mission to the U.S. for his Chihuahuan master (Pedro Armendariz). There he breaks a leg, is forced to stay over for two months, and suddenly he is the most sought-after man in town...
...solutions of copper sulfate ($1.50 per lb.). Pouring in fluids intravenously but giving nothing by mouth, Namru-2 doctors saw their patients recover. For the medically poor areas the Namru-2 success dramatized the fact that cholera, if promptly diagnosed and properly treated, need not be fatal. Proof: the death rate among Namru-2 patients dropped from the prevailing 60% to less than...
...then coma and convulsions. Some doctors thought it was bulbar polio; others considered it meningitis. But though New Jersey's health department had not yet issued a blanket diagnosis, most doctors thought they knew what it was: Eastern equine encephalitis, one of the most feared forms (a 75% death rate) of a disease for which medical science has no cure, or even an effective method of control...
...Louis encephalitis -are usually more benign than their Oriental cousins. During an epidemic of Western equine in Utah last year, 47 cases were reported, but only one victim died. Eastern equine is more virulent: those who survive the brain congestion and the raging temperatures (up to 110° before death) often suffer some mental impairment or partial paralysis. The one mitigating factor is that the disease, though common among animals in the eastern U.S., Canada and South America, rarely attacks man. New Jersey had never reported a case of encephalitis before...