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...miserable few days in bed. To the elderly and those suffering from chronic heart or respiratory diseases, it can be a prelude to fatal complications. Last week some 213 deaths in the U.S. were at tributed to the disease and accompanying complications. To try to protect the aged and infirm, seven national drug firms have produced 17 million doses of vaccine that are now being distributed across the country. Among the first vaccinated: former President Harry Truman...
Aside from vaccination, the only prophylactic against any strain of Asian flu is amantadine, a drug marketed by Du Pont as Symmetrel. It is given to the elderly and infirm after one member of the household has come down with flu but before they develop it themselves. It is ineffective after illness has begun, and many physicians question whether its safety for those of all ages and sexes has been sufficiently proved. No matter how widely the new vaccine is distributed or how fast it is used, this is going to be the winter of the flu. And Hong Kong...
...variant of the A-2 that triggered a global epidemic in 1957 and killed 19,000, will cause, in healthy victims, illnesses similar to those resulting from earlier strains of A2. Average severity: two to five days of aches, pains and fever. For the elderly and infirm, however, A-2/Hong Kong/68 poses a threat to life. With this in mind, PHS experts have advised physicians to give inoculations of either old or new vaccine only to persons who run the risk of severe complications when they come down with winter's most miserable complaint...
...marching Poor People have tried to avoid this obstacle by limiting their guaranteed-income proposal to those too young, too old, or too infirm to work. But this doesn't strike at the real problem: the shortage of jobs in America for unskilled or low-skilled workers. When there are jobs, they are usually deficient in either money income or psychic income. Welfare programs and retraining are inadequate, and there is a serious question whether they could ever eliminate poverty...
Anthony Mainionis' Haemon is adequate but somewhat colorless. Marian Hailey manages sufficiently to convey the weak-willed and vacillating Ismene--"infirm of purpose," to use Lady Macbeth's taunt. Antigones are rare, but Ismenes are a dime a dozen. Jane Farnol brings a good deal of warmth to the role of Antigone's devoted and solicitous old nurse. Richard Castellano, Edward Rutney, and Garry Mitchell, dressed in blue uniforms with red stripes, are fine as the three guards, who represent the majority of society; they are part of Creon's "featherheaded rabble." They are hard-drinking, vulgar-tongued, card-playing...