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...intricate are Japan's election laws that a candidate for the Diet must wade through a 200-page paperback manual of dos and don'ts before he dares to make a speech. If he campaigns by car, he is limited to a "short, simple appeal" such as "Please vote for me." If he campaigns by sea or river, he is restricted to one boat. He may make only 60 speeches during the three-week campaign, no more than three of them on the radio. At his campaign headquarters he may serve nothing stronger than "tea and light cookies...
...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...
...Crook is the tragicomic tale of four film-flammed factory workers who quit their pedestrian jobs to go on a crime-filled joyride through the streets of Paris. A quartet of cut-rate Belmon-dos, they see themselves essentially as Robin Hoods, but swiftly become a pack of robbing hoods; their crimes escalate from glomming some gum to heisting a locomotive to kidnaping an actress...
...BEST TIMES, by John Dos Passes. An informal canter through a "narrative panorama" of the U.S. of the recent past. Historian-Journalist Dos Passes, having suffered ideological tumbles on both the left and right, now has come to rest on a distrust of all systems that claim to improve mankind at the cost of freedom...
...BEST TIMES, by John Dos Passos. An informal memoir, which also manages to be a typically understated and modest autobiography by a novelist who is not so much a historian as a journalist...