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...ceremonially greeted Saigon's Roman Catholic Archbishop Nguyen Van Binh on his return from Rome, also dispatched a helicopter to bring home Le Thanh Tat, chief of the eccentric Cao Dai politico-religious sect, who had been exiled in Cambodia.* The air carried an unmistakable tang of political fever. Repeatedly Big Minh assured visitors of his hope to hold elections "if possible" in six to twelve months. But the U.S. is in no hurry for him to do so; the country is so politically disorganized, Washington fears, that it will take longer than that to guarantee an orderly turnover...
...Mike" McLaughlin's brand of bitterness is more Angostura than Angst. "What we love about love," she observes, "is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures." In this book of aphorisms, jotted down in the time she can spare from her job as managing editor of Glamour magazine, Authoress McLaughlin impales her prey with the cool detachment of a lepidopterist. A neurotic, according to Neurotic's Notebook, "has perfect vision in one eye, but cannot remember which," and goes through life feeling "like a Christmas shopper who keeps dropping his packages, and it's raining...
Dengue is seldom a fatal illness. But it is one of the most painful of infectious diseases, which explains its other name, breakbone fever. About a week after injection of the virus by a biting mosquito, the victim develops a fever, chills, excruciating headache, pain behind the eyeballs, backache, and pain in muscles and joints. Most victims are sure they are going to die-and many want to. The pain and weakness last for weeks. There is no specific medication; the only treatment is aspirin, lots of fluids and bed rest...
...travelers entering the U.S. last week from Jamaica and Puerto Rico were closely checked for signs of a disease that most of them never heard of: dengue (pronounced deng-gay) fever. The disease hit the Caribbean in July. Ever since, officials with an anxious eye on the coming winter's tourist trade (normally 20,000 to 25,000 visitors a month for Puerto Rico alone) have been waiting hopefully for the epidemics to die out. They are still waiting. New cases last week brought Jamaica's 1963 total close to 500, while Puerto Rico passed...
...epidemic of dengue for 20 years, but Public Health Service officials are worried that a single infected traveler might reseed the virus in mainland mosquitoes. The usual carrier is the urban and suburban mosquito Aëdes aegypti, also the carrier of yellow fever. It is found in at least nine Southern states, where it breeds in cans, old tires and holes in trees...