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Perhaps the most tragic symbol of the violence was a huge fire in Belfast's Farringdon Gardens, a "mixed" area where Protestants had lived peacefully beside Catholics for a generation. As fears rose, extremists set some 200 houses ablaze: many were Protestants destroying their own homes before fleeing to safer districts. "We're getting out," said one, "but no Catholic will get these houses." A Catholic resident lamented, "In winter we used to shovel snow off each other's paths; now everybody is cutting each other's throat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Northern Ireland: Violent Jubilee | 8/23/1971 | See Source »

...vitamin virtues were first reported in the Lancet in January by Dr. Franklin Bicknell of London's Farringdon Dispensary. Last week Neurologist Israel Spanier Wechsler of Mt. Sinai Hospital told a group of noted colleagues that, working independently of Dr. Bicknell, he had cured one man of the supposedly hopeless disease, had got a bedridden woman to walking about her house, had "improved" three other patients...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Gehrig's Disease | 3/25/1940 | See Source »

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