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...planks on job subsidies and fighting unemployment. Some delegations, like Ohio, bitterly resented the decision. Several others called the trailer to object. "It's tough," said Strauss to Jordan. "A lot of these guys broke their backs for us." Finally the time had run out, the Kennedy fever on the floor was holding at a peak. Strauss and Jordan had no time to call the President to ask for directions; they had to move on their...
...Tokyo pediatrician named Tomisaku Kawasaki, now 55, was struck by something unusual. Several of his patients at the Japan Red Cross medical center had the symptoms of scarlet fever, yet did not respond to penicillin. In the next years Kawasaki spotted similar cases. By 1967 he was convinced that he was seeing a new illness, one that mostly struck children under five, and could only be diagnosed by a combination of distinct symptoms. Among them: high fever persisting for five or more days, congested blood vessels in the eye, skin rashes, enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, peeling...
...symptoms can be confused not only with those of scarlet fever but also with those of juvenile rheumatoid arthritis and other ailments. While the illness is still considered rare, Bell says: "There's no question that 650 cases is an undercount...
...disease has no known cure. Aspirin is the standard treatment, because it lowers fever, reduces inflammation and helps keep the blood from clotting. Most afflicted children eventually recover fully, as Jeffrey did, but up to one-third develop problems-especially aneurysms in the coronary arteries, weak patches in the walls of the arteries supplying blood to the heart. Complications from the condition, which may include abnormalities in the heart rhythm, heart attacks, or even a rare rupture of the coronary artery, kill about two in 100 patients...
Remember Howard Jarvis and Proposition 13? Well, like roller disco, tax fever has spread to the East Coast. Actually, Proposition 2 1/2 is a state measure, designed to severely limit property taxes, higher here than in any other state. But if the law passes, and current indications are that voters will approve the measure, Cambridge is in for more trouble than most Bay State communities...