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...town, turned up scores of additional cases. Some victims also had other symptoms, such as terrifying dreams, difficulty in swallowing, and a feverish feeling not justified by a slight rise in temperature. Nearly always there was a letup after a few weeks, then a series of relapses throughout the five-month period of study. Women were victims twice as commonly as men, and their cases were more severe. Inexplicably, there were no cases among children under twelve and few among oldsters past 60. Despite an estimated total of 300 cases in the area, there were no deaths...
...clean bill of health when actually they are suffering from an insidious disease that may cause blindness. So said a Memphis ophthalmologist last week at a sight-saving conference* in Manhattan. The often overlooked disease: glaucoma. Reported the University of Tennessee's Dr. Margaret Horsley, after a five-month 'study just completed at the John Gaston Hospital's clinics: 44 cases of glaucoma were found among patients who did not suspect that they had anything wrong with their eyes...
...drawling visiting lecturer admitted being "terrified." If he could not get a good discussion going, then he would simply be wasting everybody's time. Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner (Sanctuary, The Sound and the Fury) need not have worried. Last week, as he began his five-month tenure as the University of Virginia's first visiting "writer in residence," he proved from the start that in his own quiet, philosophic way, he would give his students plenty to talk about...
...below last year's rate, the economy was still in high gear: retail sales, were up 4% for the week, steel pushed at 99.6% of its capacity, corporate dividends were up 15% for the first eight months, employment was at an alltime high of 67 million. And one index was pleasantly down: consumer prices dipped .02% last month, breaking a five-month climb. The news was tempered with a sobering thought that expected price increases for meat, apparel, coal, haircuts and automobiles (see below) may raise September's cost of living to last July's alltime high...
Congressman Torby Macdonald's suggestion that the Government finance a five-month training camp for the summer Olympic team is as misunderstood as it is well-meaning. In a small way, it demonstrates the grip on the American mind held by big-time athletics...