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Italy's fever-eyed film queen Gina (Go Naked in the World) Lollobrigida prepared to become Canada's most glamorous immigrant of the year. Reason: she was weary of trying to untangle Italian red tape that prevented her stateless Yugo slavian-born husband, Dr. Milko Skofic, from becoming an Italian citizen. Father and son, 2½-year-old Milko Jr., winged off with Gina from Rome on a trip that will end in Toronto, where the family will buy a home, hopefully apply for Canadian citizenship...
...suggested that the idea that there is a specific common-cold virus, peculiar to man, had best be abandoned completely. No fewer than 70 viruses have been shown to cause human diseases that run the gamut from the simple common cold (runny nose and other discomforts, but usually no fever) to influenza. Most discouraging for snifflers awaiting a wonder drug: in some people, at some times, viruses of supposedly the relatively harmless, common-cold class may cause disease as severe as influenza, while the more feared influenza viruses may give rise to symptoms no more severe than those...
...Hench challenged his hearers with the defiant statement that they would probably be unable to accept his theory at this stage. But since he suggested that it applied, beyond rheumatoid arthritis, to several disorders such as rheumatic fever, gout, psoriasis and ulcerative colitis, he left them with much to ponder...
Beyond these, there are a score of conditions in which antibody hunters suspect that auto-allergy plays a role, e.g., multiple sclerosis, rheumatic fever, rheumatoid arthritis, and severe forms of kidney disease. The University of Washington's Dr. Paul P. Van Arsdel Jr. called attention to the appearance of antibodies against their own heart-muscle tissue in victims of heart attacks. When the antibodies appear, they have no effect on the healing of the heart muscle. The consensus: anti bodies will probably appear after protracted damage to any tissues...
From St. Francis Xavier, awaiting his lonely death on an island off the China coast in 1552, to Bishop James Walsh, suffering in a Chinese Communist jail in 1960; from young Samuel Miller, dying of fever on a ship homeward bound from Africa in 1818, to Missionary-Pilot Nathanael Saint, sinking under the spears of the Amazon's Auca Indians in 1956, brave men have looked to the great missionary to the Gentiles, himself no stranger to suffering. Paul knew the inside of jails around the Mediterranean. Before he died, almost certainly as a martyr, he was scourged five...