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...same disease. Not so, said Dr. Ebert. Bronchitis, by definition, is inflammation and consequent obstruction of the branches of the windpipe. Post-mortem examinations have recently shown that one victim may have suffered from severe bronchitis and a little emphysema while another may have had the reverse. To distinguish between these two types in living patients with labored breathing, said Dr. Ebert, is surprisingly difficult. In fact, there is a continuous spectrum ranging from patients with pure bronchitis and no emphysema to those rare cases with pure emphysema and no bronchitis. Most, Dr. Ebert said, have a bit of both...
...risky is a milky-white preparation of fugu testes that is mixed with hot sake and drunk by eager virility seekers. The testes are nontoxic, but the ovaries and liver are so deadly that small bits of them can kill a man, and it takes an experienced chef to distinguish a deadly liver from an aphrodisiac testis...
...Called "pound" because it was originally a pound of silver; the pound of silver then became known as "pound sterling" to distinguish it from ordinary units of weight. Now the two names are used interchangeably...
...architecture is frozen music, as Goethe said, then the latest addition to the Capitol Hill skyline is a resounding clinker. The Rayburn House Office Building, otherwise known as the new New House Office Building to distinguish it from the old New House Office Building, and the old Old House Office Building, was formally opened for business. Lady Bird Johnson last week dedicated a somewhat idealized, larger-and leaner-than-life bronze statue of the late Mr. Sam in the main-stair hall. Said Representative Wright Patman, recalling his fellow Texan: "This edifice is made, like Rayburn's toughly achieved...
Realities & Fantasies. The pastor's latest blastled a government spokesman to suggest that it would be wiser to ignore the thoughts of a man "who cannot always distinguish clearly between realities and fantasies." Hannover's Lutheran Bishop Hanns Lilje called ballot invalidation "a mistaken means of striving for peace." Hamburg Theologian-Preacher Helmut Thielicke said: "Niemöller is a typical German, who has no sense for compromise." But German church leaders, though embarrassed by Niemöller's political views, have never moved to depose him because of his international prestige. At 73, he has retired...