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Painful Choice. Another bug-this one viral-made the hours before liftoff almost as tense as the launch itself. The countdown for the mission was about to begin when Astronaut Charles Duke, of the Apollo 13 back-up crew, complained of chills, fever and a rash. Doctors diagnosed his illness as rubella, or German measles. Duke had apparently caught the disease from the children of friends. Dismayed NASA officials immediately ordered blood tests of Apollo 13's first-line crew members, who had come in contact with Duke during several preflight conferences. Both Astronauts Jim Lovell and Fred Haise...
...sharpened and heightened, and I know what I'm supposed to be," she says. "I feel safer." With her gifts, she should. The ultimate comment on Maggie's precise, disciplined style comes from Noel Coward, who directed her in a deliciously campy revival of his play Hay Fever at the National in 1964. Coward has a horror of "faffing," which is the affected hemming and hesitating that shatters the rhythm of a line or a scene and blurs its point. "Maggie," proclaims Sir Noel, "never faffs." Except offstage. There she talks with nervous, thoroughbred gestures, twiddling with...
...long as the U.S. has been fighting in Southeast Asia, spasmodic crises in the war zone and frequent peaks of protest at home have drawn a wildly fluctuating fever chart. The Nixon Administration now faces a period of high temperature and uncertain remedy...
Maynihan's Memo Fever...
Communication Gap. Too many mothers still believe that measles is one of those unavoidable childhood diseases that disappear after seven days of spots and fever. The facts are grimmer. Before the development of the vaccine, almost 4,000,000 children caught measles every year. Thousands of them came down with encephalitis and other serious complications. Some were severely retarded as a result of brain damage, and one out of every 1,000 died...