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Then came a disturbing report. One afternoon Washkansky complained of chest pains and started running a slight fever. By morning he was coughing up sputum. Doctors diagnosed it as pneumonia, in the next 24 hours gave him 20 million units of penicillin...
These were reassuring words-and some reassurance was needed. The week of speculative fever following Britain's devaluation cost the U.S. $475 million in gold. That was the biggest single week's loss ever suffered by the nation's steadily dwindling gold reserves, which as a result sank to a 30-year low of $12.43 billion. And because $10.45 billion worth is used as backing for currency, the loss slashed by 20% (to some $2 billion) the "free reserves" available for redeeming foreign-held dollars (currently $14 billion) in gold...
Hundredfold Doses. Since the patients' responses to treatment could have been predicted in nearly every case by a laboratory test devised at Sloan-Kettering, there is no need to waste L-asparaginase by trying it blindly on patients unlikely to benefit. Side effects included fever, nausea, weight loss and allergic reactions but, said Dr. Oettgen, it is uncertain whether these were due to the enzyme or to contaminants...
...soccer pools or at the track, where the sport of kings has jockeys in government colors riding state-owned nags. Bettors watch the morning line more closely than the party line, have made big sellers of such magazines as Hungary's Pesti Turf. So high is the gambling fever in Yugoslavia that one party wag has remarked that the state flag ought to have "two crossed croupier rakes on a green baize background...
With the aid of unemployed civil rights marchers and militant priests, Chavez, Alinsky & Co. ultimately won their strike. The revolutionary fever was slow to cool. As one union organizer put it afterward: "Success in our business means getting workers to middle-class status. The guy who carried a banner in 1966-well, in five years you're going to have a hard time getting him to a union meeting." It is that mood of inevitability that makes the anachronism of the Delano strike such compelling reading-and the strikers' success such a meaningful victory...