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Also a factor is the strain of modern living. According to research, such emotions as anger and anxiety trigger dormant allergies, including hay fever...
...months the cardinal has fumed be cause Gomulka failed to convene a long dormant committee on church-state relations intended to review political harassment of religious activities. Finally, in a series of Lenten sermons, Wyszynski sharply criticized the regime in two at tacks on state-sponsored atheism, a third on birth control and the Polish system of legal abortion. For good measure, he condemned the party-controlled press for "throwing mud at our priests'" by publishing the lurid "confessions" of unfrocked clerics...
...work a swift cure. What it does, explained Cornell University's Dr. Walsh McDermott, one of the first to test it, "is to incapacitate the bacilli so that they either die naturally or can be swept away by the body's natural defenses. A few may remain dormant, so we cannot say the patient is cured-only that his disease is arrested." But many patients can be treated at home from the start. "Others can be treated briefly, in a general hospital, and then go home. Bold surgery to remove parts of lungs was at its peak...
...long dormant two million dollar suit against the University came to life again yesterday when the Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled that 32-year-old Walter Grueninger, a former Medical School student, is entitled to a trial on his claim that negligence on the part of the University Health Services caused him to go blind...
...Room in the Middle. The U.S. has always had its far right-sometimes dormant but usually rising up in time of national doubt and uncertainty. In 1961, Americans are worried about the problems of the cold war-Cuba, Berlin, Laos, the H-bomb. But those problems often seem so distant and massive to the individual that he despairs of being able to do anything about them...