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...service generally offered with an air first of suspicion ("This is the maternity department; it is for women who are expecting babies") and then of condescension; the customer's assurance of her eligibility is looked upon as an admission of carrying not a baby but a dread disease ("I think, in your condition and looking the way you do, you'd be better off in some neutral shade"). It is just about impossible to buy in any department but maternity; no matter how adequate the dress found on a different floor, it is there "for the regular customers...
...that can be indicted as essential factors in human cancer, the researchers are looking for guidelines in viruses that parasitize lower forms of life. They have a suggestive clue in diphtheria bacilli. All the microbes of this species can cause infection in man. but only a few have the dread power to manufacture the poison that leads to the formation of a dead ly, strangling membrane across the victim's throat. And this power depends on the microbes' being infected, in their turn, with a tiny particle of nucleic acid-the core of a virus, which has penetrated...
Announce with dread our planning...
...return. The Kennedy Administration contends that power could be used selectively "so that there will be a way to stop a war before all of the destruction of which both sides are capable has been wrought." One byproduct of this theory is that it should ease the deep U.S. dread-as demonstrated by the bestselling success of the novel Fail-Safe-that such a war could start by mistake...
David (Keir Dullea) is a 17-year-old boy with a high IQ and an obsessive-compulsive neurosis. He lives in morbid horror of dirt, in insane ambition to stop time and so cheat death, in panic dread that someday someone may touch him-"because a touch can kill." Lisa (Janet Margolin) is a 15-year-old girl with soft brown eyes and schizophrenia. She is split into two well-defined personalities. As Lisa she is a silly four-year-old who talks all the time but only in a "word salad" seasoned with rhyme...