Word: fever
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important difference was that no matter how it was given, children with eczema had less fever and even fewer severe reactions than normal children who got the standard shot. In 1,409 test vaccinations, only two children developed allergic complications, and they were mild and short-lived. Of the test subjects, 300 were later given the legally required shot of standard calf vaccine. Apparently preconditioned, not one suffered ill effects...
...thumb in Craig's mouth to keep him from swallowing his tongue. Craig bit him and took a hunk out of his thumb and the man said, 'Your baby has strong teeth. He just bit me.'" Craig recovered from the convulsions brought on by a fever, but it was several days before Mrs. Chasnov found out who the good Samaritan was. An aide casually telephoned from New York's City Hall to say that Mayor John Lindsay was interested in knowing how the lad was getting along...
Shiny New Apple. Like a good glass of 3.2 beer, popular chronicles of the '30s tend to repeat themselves, and this "highly selective history," combined with personal reminiscences, is no exception. Still, Author Bendiner (White House Fever, Obstacle Course on Capitol Hill) offers a book as tempting as a shiny new apple, because his account is not oversentimental...
...gunning for the tired businessman, with a whole plane turned into a men-only compartment, where commuting executives are free to cuss, smoke cigars and relax in rumpled shirtsleeve comfort. For businessmen who do not want to relax, Braniff offered portable typewriters and Dictaphones. And for passengers with Klondike fever, Alaska Airlines was featuring Gay Nineties flights, replete with schooners of beer, red-velvet and gold-tassel cabin decor, stewardesses who wear ankle-length red-velvet skirts and sport 1890 hair styles, and in-flight announcements sung to Calamity Jane lyrics...
...first one-acter is almost a Broad way in joke. Since Marat/Sade accustomed audiences to the sight of a man's naked backside, what are the prospects for a frontal confrontation? A deadserious playwright (George Grizzard) with integrity fever wants to stage precisely that. In the opening scene of his play, a man will be offstage in the bathroom brushing his teeth. His wife, in the adjoining bedroom, calls out something. Suddenly the man appears, stark naked, toothbrush in hand, saying, "You know I can't hear you when the water's running." According to the playwright...