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When the U.S. aircraft carrier Hor net, accompanied by two submarines and some eleven U.S. and Japanese destroyers, steamed into the Sea of Japan on maneuvers (Operation Crossed T), they knew that they would find the Russians waiting. Moscow likes to consider the Sea of Japan just a large bay of its naval base at Vladivostok. This time the Russians did not just look on. The Russian destroyer Besslednyi began cutting in between the maneuvering vessels, ignoring urgent warning signals to stay clear. In a game of "chicken" on the sea, it twice came to within...
...similar double action in gout. Aspirin's supremacy as an antirheumatic was threatened for a while after the hormones cortisone and ACTH appeared in 1949, but it is once again "the drug of choice," except in special cases where doctors find the risks of the hor mones' side effects are justified...
...drinkers might find use for a puli, a shaggy sheepherder famed for its ability to guide strays back into the fold. And antique collectors will want the world's oldest dog, the saluki, which appears in Sumerian carvings as early as 6000 B.C. The Arabs call him "el Hor" (the noble one), and use him to hunt gazelles. Saluki owners also have a readymade subject of conversation with Socialite Ceezee Guest...
...streets, people gathered to read each other's newspapers, murmuring "hor rible, horrible, horrible." Sunday evening church services became funeral rites. Five miles from downtown Atlanta, in the Buckhead section where most of the vic tims had lived, friends and relatives dropped a protective curtain of silence around the mourning families, answered the phones, manned the doors, accept ed the flowers. The silver trays on foy er tables whitened with visiting cards and notes...
...gets lung cancer and what type he gets may depend partly on constitutional factors, suggested Dr. Sheldon C. Sommers of La Jolla. The commonest form (epidermoid bronchogenic carcinoma) is associated not only with irritation from industrial fumes or heavy smoking, but also with a high level of male sex hor mones in the patients. Adenocarcinoma, less common, is the usual form in women and in men with high outputs of female hormones. A third type, called "oat-cell" or undifferentiated, occurs in men whose adrenal glands put out an excess of corti sone-type hormones...