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RHAZES, an Arabian physician, described the affliction in the 9th century A.D., mistaking it for a milder form of smallpox. Actually it was measles, a sometimes dangerous illness that has long been considered an unavoidable childhood disease. Now there is a good chance that the spots will be wiped out, thanks to the work of Harvard's Nobel-prizewinning Virologist John Franklin Enders, whose researches also made the Salk polio vaccine possible. For Enders' own progress report, see MEDICINE, Vaccine for Measles...
HARDENING OF BRAIN ARTERIES and resulting mental deterioration in the aged. (This now causes 30% of admissions to New York's state hospitals and a vast number of milder, nonhospitalized cases.) Drugs could help by improving circulation in the brain, preventing extension of areas damaged by sclerosis, or stimulating the brain's repair mechanisms. Effective drugs for these purposes might outsell anything now on the market...
...describing the German expressionism of the twentieth century, the same adjectives keep reappearing. "Incisive" and "bold" are among the milder ones. "Brutal" really ought to be an epithet in art criticism, but in this connection it constantly arises as the laudatory description of a narrative school of art. In comparison, and often, unfortunately, in opposition, the modern art of France is cited as an opposed camp. The debate has been made to resemble an international conflict...
...Centuries, and see how wonderfully they have progressed since we founded their alma matter a few centuries ago. They dress so nicely, and are so delightfully clean-shaven, and one always knows that they will be such wonderful financial successes in life. We like Yale--it's much milder...
...overthrowing the milder punishments recommended by the Interfraternity Judiciary Committee, the faculty group stated that the pledges of ten fraternities had "degraded themselves, their fraternities, and their college...