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Into the Cure Column. First patient to get the benefit of Dr. Conn's aldosterone research was no tropic-bound G.I., but a 34-year-old Michigan woman whose high blood pressure (170 over 100) was accompanied by unusual features. She had muscular weakness and cramps, had to drink and urinate frequently; her low-salt sweat and abysmally low level of potassium in the blood indicated an excess of aldosterone. A medical team traced her trouble to a small tumor on her right adrenal gland, which was pumping out a flood of aldosterone although there was no excess...
...been considered anything but orthodox." For example, Philip paraphrases St. John's Gospel on the importance of the Eucharist: "But what is this which will inherit? That which belongs to Jesus with his blood. Because of this he said 'he who shall not eat my flesh and drink my blood has no life in him.' He who has received these has food and drink and clothing...
...handwork on cameras.'' It also means invading the competitors' home grounds abroad, where Kodak sold more than $325 million in cameras and film last year and will invest $27½ million in capital expansion and modernization this year. "If you can get a Frenchman to drink Coca-Cola," says Vaughn optimistically, "it won't be long before all Europeans will take to the idea of using Kodaks...
Eventually Garrison ran up against a sin that was worse than drink: slavery. All his other concerns were sidelined while he concentrated on this one. Moving from newspaper to newspaper, he impudently courted libel suits with his inflammatory editorials against slaveowners and traders. Convicted in one case, he spent 49 days in jail. Urged by a fellow abolitionist to calm down, Garrison snapped: "I have need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt." In 1831 he launched his newspaper, The Liberator, which so infuriated the South that the Georgia legislature offered...
Some four months after her husband, George, won the Michigan governorship, his sprightly missus, Lenore Romney, 52, explained how to keep winning the marital match. "Don't serve your husband a drink in a jelly glass," she told a group of conventioning beauticians in Detroit, "or serve his meals while you've got curlers on. He's the one who cares the most about you, and you owe it to him to look your very best." Then, wiggling her new light brown wiglet, Mrs. Romney let the ladies in on another secret: "It's the first...