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Between visits with the Americans, inexhaustible Nikita received an Indian editor, an Indian scholar, Indonesia's President Sukarno, and discussed things with an official from Finland. Then he hopped into his plane and flew away on a trip to Kiev, while in Geneva sober-faced Andrei Gromyko sat down to do battle with Western diplomats...
...document his conclusion, Dr. Finland told the Association of American Physicians, he and two colleagues (Dr. Wilfred F. Jones Jr. and Research Technician Mildred W. Barnes) spent three years poring over the records of 10,000 patients who had severe infections at the time of death in Boston City Hospital. The researchers covered 24 years, beginning with 1935, to get data before the first sulfa changed the picture (1937). Deaths caused by bacterial infections in the bloodstream dropped steadily until 1947, they found. Since then, the rate has stayed low or dropped further for deaths caused by pneumococci...
Physicians who are overconfident of germ-killing wonder drugs are living in a fool's paradise where their patients may die. This is a favorite theme of Boston's Dr. Maxwell Finland. Most doctors have rationalized that, although the sulfas and antibiotics let some resistant microbes slip by, they save so many lives that their occasional failures stand out more. The "increase" in such cases, they argue, is only relative, not real. Last week Dr. Finland attacked this defense. In his saddest jeremiad yet, he asserted that the antimicrobial drugs have caused an actual increase in severe infections...
...also written novels, plays, collections of criticism, and a discussion of the socialist movement, To The Finland Station...
...most U.S. skiers do, young Gene adopted the Finnish jumping style of leaning forward from the ankles, found that it cut down wind resistance, gave more horizontal thrust for longer jumps. Fortnight ago in the North American championships at Squaw Valley, Calif., he came within 3.3 points of beating Finland's Kalevi Karkinen. one of the world's best. "We were all amazed," said Norway's top expert, Sigmund Ruud, after watching Kotlarek at the Holmenkollen. "The U.S. has never had a more promising jumper...