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...Nelson Rockefeller, California's Pat Brown and Ohio's Michael Di Salle-all running for re-election this fall-added their voices to the chorus. Within the Administration itself, the President's own Council of Economic Advisers kept pressing for immediate and substantial reductions. The fever spread to the press, inspiring countless editorials and cartoons. The New York Mirror topped a cut-taxes edi torial with the headline...
...shock of not having the family doctor at the other end of the telephone was abruptly brought home on the first day of the strike. When Mrs. Vicky Derhousoff put her nine-month-old son Carl to bed in their home at Usherville, he was running a fever. Next morning the fever was higher. Peter Derhousoff tried to phone the doctors in nearby Preeceville, was told that both were on vacation. A nurse at the Preeceville Hospital told him to take the baby to Yorkton, 91 miles away. On the road, says Derhousoff, "I began to realize...
Died. John Ireland. 82, gentle, white-haired English composer of songs, chamber, piano and organ music, anthems and orchestral pieces, who put poems to music (his most popular: from Masefield's Sea-Fever) but shied away from longer works because "you must have a very good opinion of yourself to write a symphony"; after a long illness; in Washington, Sussex, England...
Neither Dr. Snyder nor anyone else has yet identified the actual cause of cat-scratch fever, but it is believed to be an unusually large virus-the only kind that can be effectively treated with antibiotics...
...standard lower academic kind, but the Herzes are more than usually miserable. He is Jewish, she was born Catholic, and their bitter parents cut off both love and loans when they married. Worse, Libby is a sickly girl, the sort whose pale beauty is best set off by fever, and whose malfunctioning organs-kidneys, in her case-take on a presence of their own in the house, like an old aunt's false teeth or an off-duty cop's revolver...