Word: occurance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the current typhoid cases, said Dr. Smadel. occur in groups within a single family after grandma has moved in to help care for a younger generation. If grandfather is with her, he is not likely to have much to do with food handling. But grandma takes over in the kitchen. If she is careless about bathroom cleanliness (the bacilli are transmitted from fecal matter only through food and drink), she gives the youngsters an unwelcome and unexpected gift of typhoid. Their acute illnesses can be cured with chloramphenicol (Chloromycetin). After this modern treatment so few become carriers, they...
Certainly, cases occur in which students discover after much research that they cannot write on their chosen thesis topics. To deny these persons degrees with Honors would be unreasonable. But the College certainly does not want to encourage academic shoddiness and therefore must set some standards for judging the validity of a petition to move into General Studies at a late date...
...Europe's mighty postwar economic rebound is slowing down. Fortnight ago, Robert Marjolin, one of the Common Market Commission's three vice presidents, declared that he detected in Europe all the classic symptoms that herald the end of an economic boom, and speculated that "a recession might occur at the end of 1963 or later" And last week Sweden's Per Jacobsson, much respected head of the International Monetary Fund, reminded his fellow Europeans that "business expansion does not go on forever," and warned that he saw "signs of a slackening in some fields...
...United States-Cuba relations. The American blockade is not directed against Castro, because Castro poses no military threat to our security. It is directed against the Soviet Union, and it is the Soviet Union which must have bear the responsibility for any breach of the peace which may occur...
What makes the African tumors especially interesting to researchers is their geography. They occur clear across the continent, and down the east coast as far as Lourenço Marques. Since they are found in children of all races, their cause is not likely to lie in ethnic factors. But there are two cutoffs: the tumors do not occur in children living above about 5,000 ft., or in areas with less than 20 in. of annual rainfall. The map of African tumor occurrence, with its highland islands of tumor-free children, almost matches the maps for yellow fever...