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...Santiago, the new cases were described by doctors as increasingly serious. Said one: "We have no explanation as yet. but it seems that the virus is now stronger than the previous week." Abandoning their now ineffective treatment of aspirin or linden-flower potion, health officials fought the virus, identified as "Japan 305," with such antibiotics as streptomycin and achromycin...
...intellectual atmosphere of the Ecole Normale Superiere "seeps in like the scent in a deserted flower shop," Jean J. Seznec, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at Oxford University, told a Lamont Forum Room audience in the final Thursday Afternoon Lecture...
...Narayan, general secretary of Nehru's Congress Party, back from a tour of Kerala, reported a "complete breakdown of law and order." Red Minister Namboodiripad was proud of it: he plans, he said, to close many of the state's jails and turn their grounds into public flower gardens. He had already freed many Communists from jail, whatever the charges on which they were convicted...
...breeze. Traffic cops, sweating in their summer khakis, pause to admire carefully arranged clusters of chrysanthemums set in their dusty control stations, sip glasses of hot green tea to keep cool. And even the most suicidal of taxi drivers is more likely than not to have at least one flower vase in his careening chariot...
Melville Cooper, Jack Hollander and Guy Sorel have the proper slickness for the evil president, prospector and baron. The large number of supporting roles provide several fine vignettes: Tom Bosley does fine double duty as the double-talking broker and the sad, flower-loving sewer man; Ned Murphy actually plays the guitar as the street-singer who knows only the first two lines of his song; and Lance Cunard is a comic Dr. Jadin, who believes that "as the foot goes, so goes...