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Carl Hasselmann and his sister Ellie, provincial, supersensitive Americans, dwell in the uneasy revulsions of a sort of spiritual incest. They represent, respectively, the frigid, inhumane predicament of mind-without-spirit and the equally suicidal predicament of spirit-without-mind. Carl's mental drive stretches him flat on the altar he has built before a hypnotic social theorist. Ellie is impelled to sacrifice herself to the "resurrection" of an aging, rich sophisticate. The earlier phases of these relationships are ground out with a skillful, meat-grinder tenacity worthy of tougher meat...
Caused by comma-shaped bacteria known as Vibrio or Spirillum cholerae, which dwell in sewage-contaminated water, cholera drains body tissues of their fluids, causes intense vomiting, diarrhea and violent muscular spasms. More than a third of its victims shrivel up, turn dark grey or violet, die, sometimes within a few hours...
Speaking to the press, Prado, a slight, grey-haired, dapper gentleman, called for American solidarity in these times. A former professor of mathematics at the University of San Morcos, founded in 1552, he said in English difficult to understand, "Let us dwell on the days when the men of San Morcos and the men of Harvard can devote themselves in peace and security to study and science...
...varieties: one, caused by bacilli, used to kill ten to 40%, can now be successfully treated with sulfaguanidine; the other, caused by Endameba histolytica, a one-celled parasite, often produces lifelong intestinal ailments. Dysentery temporarily incapacitated almost 2,000,000 men in the Civil War. Since dysentery organisms dwell in contaminated food and water, the disease can be prevented, as it was in World War I, by rigid cleanliness in cooking, strict inspection of food handlers, water and supplies...
...want to dwell on the abusive and ironic tone, the satire and the insinuations used in that unfortunate article (TIME, Feb. 16), but I hasten to point out to you that it will have a disastrous effect here and in Egypt. It gives a false impression to the American people about a friendly nation who love and admire the United States and think of it as a land of the free where the small fellow has an equal chance, and it insults a friendly people and hurts their pride. As to the first part of the article...