Word: feverently
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...logistical planning, Hagerty left nothing to chance. Correspondents got a series of detailed memos advising just what shots to get (cholera, typhus, yellow fever, smallpox, typhoid and tetanus), how much luggage was allowed (66 lbs. in one piece), what to pack (three or four bars of soap, enough clean underwear to last until New Delhi, black tie for state occasions en route). Hagerty, who took a dry-run tour of the route in November, even thoughtfully published information on the availability of American cigarettes along the way ($5 a carton in Karachi, none to be had in New Delhi...
...most interesting thing about this place is its owner, Lou Catania. A poor-but-honest spaghetti-puller from the old country? Not on your life. He barbered his way through the (U.S.) depression, marrying the boss's daughter. Aften ten years as a railroad brakeman, he surrendered to hay fever (dust in the baggage car) and founded a chain of pizza parlors around Boston and the Cape. "Leaning Tower of Pizza," that inspired pun, brought him national interest and the attentions of a large noodle concern. The Prince Spaghetti Company settled on Tower like a great leaking blimp...
Spreading Fever. A secondary imminent problem for the Eisenhower committee to consider is Panama. There last week the government went gunning for Canal Zone Governor William E. Potter, U.S. Army Major General on active service, who a fortnight ago firmly put down riots aimed at raising the Panamanian flag over the 10-by 50-mile zone. The U.S. reply to a demand for Potter's removal: a flat...
Getting out the riches is notably hindered by disease. Malaria, yellow fever, yaws, trachoma and filariasis (a forerunner of elephantiasis) sap men's will to work and win. But disease is being fought hard and successfully. During World War II, the U.S. launched a Special Public Health Service (SESP) to protect vital rubber workers from the Amazon's scourges. Now only eight of SESP' 3,153-man staff are U.S. citizens, and 97% of its annual $10 million budget comes from Brazil. The outfit runs 249 rural clinics, 22 hospitals, 109 city water systems, 97 sewage-disposal...
...ailing human and his physician, a major difficulty is that viruses cannot be identified by the disease they cause-many different ones may produce seemingly identical symptoms. And a single virus may touch off, in different people, symptoms ranging from a "cold," a "sore throat," or "fever" to paralytic polio. Even paralytic polio cannot be diagnosed as surely as was believed in what Dr. Schuman called "the happy, unenlightened first quarter of this century," because several viruses simulate its signs. Even such time-honored children's infections as measles, German measles and mumps may deceive the physician. So, said...