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...cure" he hit upon came from a clue in a manuscript on yellow fever written half a century before by a part-time physician and mapmaker. Rush's cure consisted simply of massive mercury (i.e., calomel) and jalap purges and copious bloodletting. When he tried it on a hopeless case and saw his patient recover, he used it on others, soon broadcast to the world that the yellow fever was licked...
Douglas' chances looked as hopeless as Harry Truman's; Douglas himself had fought for Eisenhower instead of Truman before Philadelphia, convinced at the time that the President was "inept." But in the spring of 1948, Douglas hitched a loudspeaker to a jeep station wagon and started out across the state. Talking wherever a crowd would gather, beginning at factory gates at 7 a.m., stopping at every gas station and crossroads café, winding up again at another factory for the midnight shift, he covered 40,000 miles, made more than 1,100 speeches in six months...
...little auditorium was heavy with the odors of whisky breaths and unwashed bodies. Eyes-cunning, defiant, haunted, hopeless, anguished and apathetic-fixed on the platform where McKeown and Larder sat surrounded by a small band of soldiers and converts...
...City has few hotels to shelter visitors. It lacks adequate water or electricity. Three miles to the south in Bethlehem, Christmastide promises to be sad and bitter. The village where Christ was born is jammed with Arab refugees; 55,000 hungry, homeless, hopeless outcasts of war live in an area that normally supports 12,000. The one good road (10 minutes by motorcar) to Jerusalem is in Israeli hands; the only other road is hardly more than a tortuous trail through the desolate Judean hills...
...Odyssey takes them through various institutions (soup kitchen, church, bordello, political meeting, fortuneteller's), supposed to inspire or comfort the miserable. After being treated as a bumbling nuisance at each of these havens, the hero tries unsuccessfully to steal a bicycle, and then tearfully walks home to a hopeless existence...