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...disease is as old as the pharaohs -telltale traces remain in mummies 3,000 years old-but to the dismay of public health doctors, it is more prevalent than ever. Schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, snail fever-by whatever name, the debilitating and often fatal illness afflicts more than 150 million people in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The disease is almost unknown in the U.S.; the few scattered cases brought into the country each year by visitors and immigrants fail to spread, create no public problem...
Last week, to the dismay of those skeptical stockholders who had switched shares and given I.C.I, a 38.5% interest in the company, Courtaulds reported that earnings for the year ending last March jumped to a surprising $74 million on sales of $519 million. The chal lenge of takeover has given the old company such a new openness that Managing Director Frank Kearton, 51, says, "We are coming to be like those film starlets who don't care what's written about them as long as they get their names in print...
...rubber gloves, use surgical instruments to make delicate incisions about his body, taking care not to injure his face. "The cell," Alfried marvels, "was pervaded by a sense of conviction similar to that which fills a hospital theater during a prolonged and difficult operation." But he also notices with dismay that the chief torturer always has cuts on his face from vigorous shaving. Finally the torturer wearies of finesse, grabs a seltzer bottle and, bursting into party song, starts beating Alfried in the groin with...
...return from a golfing vacation, Macmillan's first objective was to command a united Cabinet. Calling his ministers into emergency session, he asked each man to outline privately his own view of the situation. Without exception, the 21 top Tories expressed deep dismay at the public's loss of confidence in the government. Macmillan was caught between two almost equally unpleasant possibilities. Had he known about Profumo's doings, and in that case had he not connived to some extent in his false denials? Or, despite...
...that his fragile government is in no position to honor its commitment to shoulder MLF's cost, or even to participate. Thus the U.S., which has promised to contribute 40%, and persuaded the Germans to pledge another 40%, has finally put pressure on Britain. To Whitehall's dismay, Washington announced that its top MLF expert, Admiral Claude Ricketts, deputy chief of naval operations, would fly to London this week to discuss the government's technical reservations and satisfy British complaints that they have so far received nothing but "computer answers" from the Pentagon. Said one British official...