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...give vaccinations against typhoid in Brazil, cholera in Pakistan and Thailand, yellow fever in the Sudan, influenza at U.S. Navy stations. Now medical officer of the Quonset Point Naval Air Station. Dr. Anderson responded to Rhode Island health officers' appeals for help in mass immunization by working at makeshift clinics on his own time. He had so many takers that he has had to squeeze in his Air Station work in the mornings, now gives afternoons and evenings to the civilian clinics, which are scheduled to run through Sept. 15. By then, most of the state's susceptible...
...Miracle Worker. An occasionally makeshift, but unforgettable portrayal of Helen Keller's search for insight as a substitute for sight, with remarkable acting by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft...
...Miracle Worker. An occasionally makeshift but unforgettable portrayal of Helen Keller's search for insight as a substitute for sight, with remarkable acting by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft...
...British Lagonda for $2,000. If a prospect looks under an ancient hood, he may find a tin can packed with metal shavings in place of an air cleaner; salesmen rush up with warnings not to touch engines for fear of disturbing the precarious equilibrium developed over years of makeshift repairs...
...carnage, one officer grew sick at the sight and vomited. But the police commander said coolly: "My car was struck by a stone. If they do these things, they must learn their lesson the hard way." The dead -estimates range from 72 to 90-were carted off to makeshift morgues; more than 200 wounded overflowed the native hospital. And so much plasma was needed that African blood gave out, and the wounded got transfusions from reserve white stocks...