Word: duke
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...yanked off the market because of its severe side effects. Two others, Atromid-S and Choloxin, are now approved and so far appear to be safe, but because they work through metabolic and hormonal mechanisms, many physicians are keep ing their fingers crossed. Last week a Duke University surgeon reported that a plastic resin, which works more like a chemical sponge than a true drug, pro duces sharp reductions in blood cholesterol levels. Whether it can therefore forestall or reverse the development of heart-and-artery disease (mostly atherosclerosis), which is America's No. 1 killer, accounting...
...Merck Sharp & Dohme tried to develop a medicinal form for this purpose. One trouble was that it smelled like decayed fish and tasted lit tle better. Merck settled for selling its product, trade-named Cuemid, as a rem edy for the intolerable itching that often goes with jaundice. Duke University's Dr. Robert L. Fuson wondered wheth er, with its flavor improved, cholestyramine might not be used to lower cholesterol. Mead Johnson Laboratories, famed for many-flavored Metrecal, had the same idea. They gave it an orangeade taste, trade-named it Questran...
...Duke's chief surgeon and Dr. Fuson's boss, Dr. David C. Sabiston Jr., staunchly endorsed the animal studies with cholestyramine. But he insists cautiously that there is as yet no scientific evidence that patients with artery disease have benefited. Their subjective impressions, he emphasized, are still only suggestive. Not until many of the test patients have had arterial examinations, both before and after taking cholestyramine, will it be possible to find physical proof...
Somewhat less is known about the fallen angels than those who still reside in heaven, but Davidson nonetheless provides some background on 103 of Satan's allies. Focalor, a mighty duke who commands 30 legions of demonic spirits, has the special mission of sinking ships of war. Mammon is hell's ambassador to England. Rabdos can stop planets in their course. One of the least fortunate of devils is Azza, who is eternally destined to be suspended between heaven and earth as punishment for having sexual intercourse with mortal women...
Born. To Princess Joan of Luxembourg, 32, younger daughter of former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, and Prince Charles, younger brother of Grand Duke Jean, monarch of the pocket principality: their first child, a daughter, prematurely and by caesarean, while Joan was visiting her parents in Manhattan. Name: Charlotte, after Charles's mother, the grand duchess...