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...disease produces high fever, delirium, and painfully swollen lymph glands form dark discolorations called buboes; death follows massive internal bleeding. People infected with the most virulent, pneumonic form can infect others by sneezing. The villain is a bacillus, Pasteurella pestis, which thrives in rats, the fleas that bite them, and humans exposed to either pest. Destroying fleas and keeping rats from migrating curb the plague, but Viet Nam's fleas have grown more resistant to available insecticides; and, for example, there are only four quarantine inspectors to see that busy harbor ships keep a constant guard against invading rats...
When will Wall Street set a better tone? Monte Gordon, vice president in charge of research for Bache & Co., looks toward the time when speculative fever will subside. "The market will stop going down," he says, "when people stop trying to make huge profits in short periods of time." Lewis Schellbach, executive vice president of Standard & Poor's, thinks that some investors are worried enough to dump their stocks. "This decline has gone so far that we really need a selling climax," he says. Said James Hart, a Lehman Bros, partner: "For the near future, the trend is down...
...plastic "half-hearts," developed at Baylor and Rice universities. Used mostly outside rather than partly inside the body-as in previous cases-the pump increased Mrs. Vasquez's heart output by as much as 40% while she recuperated from deft surgical replacement of valves damaged by rheumatic fever. Two previous patients of Dr. DeBakey's, both men in their 60s, died despite aid from the heart pump; but at week's end the artificial half-heart was removed from the younger, stronger Mexican woman in a 20-minute operation, and her own heart beat effectively...
...Viet Nam on the U.S. Navy hospital ship Repose, a 16-year-old Vietnamese girl named Phan Thi Truong, a victim of rheumatic fever damage, rested easily after delicate surgery during which a new portable heart-lung machine was used for the first time...
...people-including a record 80,000 at a single New York Philharmonic performance-who have heard jazz, band music, folk-rock, opera, orchestral music, and even a Dutch street organ huffing Strauss waltzes. None of this activity absolutely guarantees that the park will be forever immune to the fever of fear and violence that it has felt in other summers, but City Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving, with support from foundations, business firms and the municipal treasury, has taken a big step in making the park safe with the sounds of music-and good music at that...