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...Amber. "She had been surprised at the discovery of an eager sensual appetite within herself. It had been in hiding, apparently, for most of her life . . . and then one day it had appeared." "It was one of the few times he had met a woman who did not instantly flare her nostrils, sniff, and come bounding...
...large, four-engine Africa-bound plane was carrying six crew members and 51 passengers, members of the Sudan administration and their families who had been vacationing in Britain. Fifteen miles off the coast of Sicily, the pilot shot up a red distress flare: the plane had developed engine trouble. The craft, a Hermes, crashed into the sea three miles offshore. As it hit the water, the great plane split in half. Then what seemed like a miracle occurred...
...since 1640, when extracts of "Jesuits' bark" (cinchona) from Peru first gave Europeans the benefits of quinine for their "ague," has there been such good news for the world's malaria victims, who number hundreds of millions. Doctors can now handle a feverish flare-up caused by practically any type of malaria, and they can prevent relapses in most types. More progress has been made in the last dozen years than in the last three centuries. Last week the A.M.A. Journal published up-to-date reports on some of the latest drugs, based on the experience of G.I.s...
...more likely to be fatal than other forms. But the blood parasites, which emerge from the tissues only once, can be knocked out with the old standby, quinine, or wartime atabrine, or postwar Paludrine, Camoquin and chloroquine. The same drugs have done a good job of suppressing the fever flare-ups of relapsing ("vivax") malaria, which occur when the parasites are in the blood...
Research here is carried on with coronographs, flare photometers, and smaller equipment. The coronograph being installed this year is the largest in the world. The principal studies of this station will involve careful observations...