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Converted Aristocrat. The division between masters and servants has grown so explosive that Peruvians from all factions are anxiously working to snip the fuse.* The most effective reformer so far has been Beltran, who holds power through a truce between the moderate right and anti-Communist left...
Abruptly, just as he was about to catch a train, Charles de Gaulle last week gave up his legal authority to be near dictator of France. A few hours before leaving for his first whistle-stop tour since a terrorist's bomb came within a damp fuse of killing him, De Gaulle issued a brief communiqué. As of Oct. 1, he announced, he would relinquish the extraordinary powers he had assumed* to quell the Algerian army revolt in April...
...Delayed Fuse. This brings the Harvard researchers to the enigmatic epidemic. First noted in war-ravaged Rumania in 1915, it was an inflammation of the brain that left some victims comatose for weeks or months-hence its medical name of encephalitis lethargica, or "sleeping sickness." Unrelated to any form of sleeping sickness previously known, it was apparently caused by a virus. The epidemic reached the U.S. in 1918, died out by 1926. No proved case has been found since. The virus vanished...
...killed up to 30% of its victims and left others crippled by nerve damage resembling Parkinson's, most patients seemed to make a full recovery. And physicians suspect that, as in all such epidemics, there were many undetected cases. In these, Drs. Poskanzer and Schwab believe, de-layed-fuse damage to the nerve cells in the subthalamic region caused Parkinson's disease up to 40 or more years later...
...York City's currently unpopular brand of virus x is unusual mainly in its treacherous, delayed-fuse character. Dr. Diehl's case began in mid-February with a sore throat that burned all the way down into her chest. The next day she went to her office, but felt seedy, flushed and achy. It hurt her to move her eyes. Her temperature went up to 100.5. Dr. Diehl prescribed aspirin for herself...