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Relaxed Approach. In contrast to O'Brien, who practices constantly, eats wheat germ, honey, and high-energy foods, and works himself into a competitive swivet before a meet by listening to his own tape-recorded pep talks, Long is casual and easygoing. He does not go all out in workouts, eats whatever is served at the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house, is so relaxed in competition that he often does not bother to watch his competitors perform. A steady B student, he works in a local drugstore one night a week, takes many night classes (he is planning...
...considerably richer in vitamins than commercial grape juice of the same vintage." (Bordeaux happens to be synonymous with claret and sauterne.) Another Bordeaux University professor, Jacques Masquelier, got carried away with the results of some sophomoric experiments. He concluded that claret is on a par with penicillin as a germ killer, hinted that it might be better because it slaughters staphylococci, many strains of which are now resistant to penicillin...
...gauze mask worn by generations of doctors and nurses slows down the spray of germs from their breathing, but eventually lets a dangerous proportion get through. Last week two Minneapolis surgeons described a radically new mask that allows only a small fraction of the germ spread and should markedly reduce the number of infections in surgical wounds...
Importance of germ filtration in the operating room has become more acute with the relatively greater prevalence of staphylococci that are resistant to penicillin and other antibiotics. Because of constant exposure, it is doctors and nurses who are most likely to be carriers of these potentially deadly germs even though they show no sign of illness themselves...
Exiled Hungarian Journalist Tibor Meray. 33. is a plodding novelist but a masterly expositor of black-is-white party dialectics and the mechanics of self brainwashing. As a Communist reporter in Korea, he cried up the monstrous germ warfare charges against the U.S.. later took part in the Hungarian Revolution and fled to Paris, where he now lives...