Word: dias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vicious falciparum type of malaria parasite is responsible for virtually all the malaria that strikes U.S. troops, despite their "Sunday pill" of chloroquine and pyrimethamine. These parasites even overcome the protective effect of a potent third antimalarial, dia-phenylsulfone (DOS), given to troops in the highlands. Falciparum's fever may be fatal if it attacks the brain. Last winter U.S. medics were saving nearly all their patients by intensive treatment with chloroquine and quinine, but 40% of the men suffered relapses...
...Unbowing Bosses. Another casualty was Home Minister Gulzarilat Nanda. Indira Gandhi has been under so much criticism in recent weeks for fail ing to take stern measures against In dia's growing wave of rioting that she realized it was time to take decisive action. So, out went the 68-year-old ascetic who had served for the past 15 years in one Cabinet post or another...
...Church of Santa Croce. Underneath the thick overpainting, his restorer's eye told him, might lie a masterpiece. So even in the haste of the moment he took time to carefully examine the back. There he spotted a moldy, handwritten sticker, partially eaten away by termites: "Removed from -dia...
...last adherents of a great religion that once enlisted millions of ad herents throughout central Asia,&* the Parsis have traditionally influenced In dia well out of proportion to their numbers. Prosperous, cosmopolitan, literate, they dominate today the business community of Bombay. Industrialist J.R.D. Tata, whose steel mills constitute India's largest privately owned enterprise, is a Parsi; so are General Sam Hormuzji Framji Jamshedji Manekshaw, one of India's top military leaders, and Zubin Mehta, conductor of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. Parsi girls for the last three years have won the title of Miss India...
...military emergency. India was a major excep tion, for tight regulation of the economy fitted neatly into Jawaharlal Nehru's doc trinaire socialist blueprint for his newly independent nation. Many of the con trols on business survive to this day, and they are charged with retarding In dia's growth in the past two decades...