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...McMurtry). Daisy flirts openly with a gaudy Italian opportunist, causing something of a scandal, while teasing an upright young American expatriate named Winterbourne (Barry Brown). The latter observes, with a mixture of melancholy and enchantment, her flouting of convention, and feels drawn to her. Daisy eventually catches "the Roman fever" late at night in the Colosseum, and dies of the figurative effects of culture shock...
...north, Beirut Bureau Chief Karsten Prager, also a former Viet Nam War correspondent, rose from a sickbed with a 102° fever to direct the bureau's work and write comprehensive files on the Palestinian liberation movement and the political repercussions of the week's violence. Photographer Eddie Adams headed to 'Ain el Hilweh, a refugee camp that had been hit by Israeli planes, where he was guarded closely by armed commandos. Correspondent William Stewart, a journalistic veteran of Viet Nam and India-Pakistan combat, also visited 'Ain el Hilweh with TIME'S Abu Said...
...success has been limited. After a steady diet of Dr. Kildaire and Marcus Welby, Americans are conditioned to curative medicine. "It's natural," says Dr. Dieter Koch Weser, associative dean of the Faculty of Medicine and a close friend of Karefa-Smart. "Someone comes to you with a high fever, you give him antibiotics, and two days later, you have accomplished a minor miracle. It's dramatic. But if you walk into a village, line up 200 children, and shoot them with a vaccine, you're no hero...
...cancer; in San Francisco. Meyer spent more than 60 years studying a wide range of diseases, including botulism, encephalitis, plague and a host of more arcane maladies. Trained as a veterinarian, he devoted much of his research to the transmittal of animal diseases to man. While investigating psittacosis (parrot fever) in 1935, he contracted the illness and nearly died. Years later he arrested that deadly bane of budgie lovers by treating bird seed with antibiotics...
...epidemic of typhoid fever will probably hit Harvard soon. No less than 30 people took a dunk in either Lake Quinsigamond or Lake Beseck this weekend to celebrate the incredible Harvard and Radcliffe victories in the Eastern Sprints...