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When she was 5 1/2 months old, Traci Cohn of Rockville, Md., developed a 104 degrees F fever and cried inconsolably for three days. Ever since that illness Traci, now 17, has been mentally retarded. Her family and one of her doctors believe that the fever and subsequent mental damage were the direct result of the pertussis, or whooping cough, inoculations that she received in the first months of her life...
...little worried about Peter's speech," says Ari Z. Posner '86, who will give the traditionally humorous Ivy Oration. "The last time the commissioner spoke in public, 15 people caught baseball fever and had to be rushed to the hospital...
...Diana fever should be kept in moderation and not allowed to become too excessive," cautioned the Tokyo Mainichi Simbun editorial. But the message of restraint was lost on even the writer's own newspaper, which festooned its pages with extravagant coverage of the six-day visit to Japan of Britain's Prince Charles and Diana. In Tokyo, 92,000 people showed up to catch a glimpse or a snapshot of the royal couple's motorcade. Diana, who left a wake of look-alike haircuts wherever she went, participated in a tea ceremony, donned an elegant kimono in Kyoto and attended...
...week these uncertainties stoked tensions toward a fever point. It began with American officials pointing a menacing finger of suspicion at Libya as instigator of the bombing of a West Berlin disco that left an American serviceman and a Turkish woman dead. Then the Pentagon cryptically noted that the Sixth Fleet, which had scattered after the Gulf of Sidra battle, was steaming back toward Libya. Almost simultaneously, President Reagan at his Wednesday-night news conference called Gaddafi "this mad dog of the Middle East" and proclaimed that the U.S. would "respond" whenever the perpetrator of a specific terrorist act could...
...Cinq's programming is following Berlusconi's successful formula, with several Italian-produced game shows, movies like Saturday Night Fever and such U.S. series as Flamingo Road and Murder, She Wrote. Berlusconi insists that La Cinq "will bring in new blood and raise the level of professionalism on all the other networks." Though opening night drew mixed reviews ("Clumsy," declared Liberation, an independent Paris daily), ratings were good: an estimated 62% of the Paris audience watched at least one minute of the programming...