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...there were 538 typhoid cases (up from 43 in July) and 50 deaths. (So far, no U.S. soldier has caught typhoid.) Last week the U.S. Army took on the immense job of immunizing all 900,000 civilians in its zone against typhoid and paratyphoid (similar to typhoid, but milder). In doing so, the U.S. hoped that the British, French and Russians, who have charge of the 2,100,000 other Berliners, would take the hint and do likewise...
...milder among his opponents, he is a latter-day Richelieu, moving suavely and powerfully behind the scenes, establishing his own court favorites or giving the knife to those fallen from grace. Extreme critics have pictured him as a kind of Svengali, whose sinister influence covers sinister designs on the President and the country. Others say he is a man of no principles who simply acts through (and hides behind) his idolized principal, the President...
...Thomas Callender, who called President Adams such names as "hoary-headed incendiary," was fined $200 and jailed for sedition. Dr. Thomas Cooper, a Pennsylvania editor, paid a $400 fine and spent six months in jail for even milder cracks at Adams...
...toning down of the propaganda is not as reasonable, however, for it has been carried to a point where the picture certainly is milder than the swarms of commando picture blurbs. Beyond these limitations the book has been faithfully reproduced so that it can be truthfully said that the faults of the picture are the faults of the book as a screen play...
...ticklish business of getting a needle into the caudal canal through a puncture just above the coccyx at the base of the spine. The mis take of getting needle and anesthetic into the spinal canal, a little higher up, or between the wrong layers of tissue, may prove fatal. Milder risks are a broken needle in the caudal canal, or a useless injection under the skin...