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...from 1915 to 1926. By 1931, the virus that caused the epidemic had inexplicably died out, apparently completely. Many of the epidemic's victims who were mildly infected suffered delayed nerve damage, the two doctors believe. In some cases the damage has taken three or four decades to manifest itself as Parkinson's disease. If sufferers from the disease were indeed restricted to victims of the 1915-26 epidemic, the doctors postulated, their numbers would continue to increase for some 40 years, then dwindle as the victims died. The average age would rise as surviving patients grew older...
...hospitals treating them. Medicaid is suffering from all kinds of inflammatory ills, plus massive financial hemorrhaging, and is headed for drastic surgery before Congress quits for Christmas. But its benefits, in terms of medical treatment for those who could not afford it before, are certainly manifest...
Though Ellsworth Bunker replaced him last April, it is still far too early to fully assess Lodge's performance in that difficult job. Author Miller does fairly note that in Viet Nam, as elsewhere, Lodge's occasional patrician arrogance often rubbed people the wrong way. But equally manifest are his common sense, his capacity for concentration and unremitting hard work, his decisiveness and clarity of thought. A difficult man. A rare one too. For unlike many others now in public life, Lodge still believes in an old-fashioned virtue: putting his country far above himself...
...Middle East war set off a shock wave of alarm and uncertainty in the world's commercial centers. It spread through financial districts from London's City to Tokyo's Kabutocho, then receded as the scope and speed of Israel's triumph became manifest. Items...
...believe the prep schools themselves know this; hence their great desire in recent years to justify their existence. A handful of promising students from Roxbury or Harlem is taken in to manifest social awareness--at the same time a promising football player from suburban Boston is taken in to get him ready to meet his Ivy League college's minimum scholastic standards while he gratifies the old grads on Saturday afternoons in the Fall...