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...centuries past, Bombay was considered so unhealthy that "two monsoons were the life of a man." Bombay is still relatively dangerous to life and limb, but what its citizens feared last week was not malarial fever or dengue but hurtling autos, gangsters, and commuter trains so jampacked that festoons of passengers hang perilously from the doors. "What can we do?" shrugs Mayor Eshakbhai Bandookwala, resplendent in a red turban and seated behind a huge desk topped with black glass. "This city is growing; it leads India. Everybody wants to come here because we have work for them...
...would reply. Star goalie Tom Apprille had a bad fever during the loss to Toronto, so the 9-1 score doesn't prove anything. Besides, the Eagles won by 10-2 over an Army team which clobbered Harvard, 5-1, so B.C. should win by 12 goals, not lose...
...touted by the influential left-wing weekly L'Express. The description fitted Defferre so perfectly that few Frenchmen had any doubt whom L'Express had in mind. As the Monsieur X campaign boomed on, Gaullists began to squirm, and Defferre's original resistance to the presidential fever weakened...
Davis did well for four days. Then his system tried to reject the graft. He ran a fever, and the kidneys began to falter. The doctors boosted Davis' dosage of immunity-suppressing drugs. To their relief, the treatment worked. In the fourth week there was another, similar crisis. Adam's kidneys were behaving toward their new host in about the way a transplanted human kidney would have. X rays and increased drug doses got the fever down and the kidneys went back to work...
...continent's futbol madness began as a respectable British import. In the 1840s, the citizens of Argentina's port of Buenos Aires watched in fascination as the crews of British ships idled away dockside hours kicking a ball around. In Peru, where other British sailors spread the fever, the saying is that "the only good things we owe the British are soccer and Scotch." And of the two, soccer is by far the more intoxicating. It appeals to a Latin sense of rhythm, of masculine grace and strength...