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Forms & Fever. Fortunately, the U.S. is not often hurt by big, Asian-style outbreaks. The principal domestic forms-Western equine and St. Louis encephalitis -are usually more benign than their Oriental cousins. During an epidemic of Western equine in Utah last year, 47 cases were reported, but only one victim died. Eastern equine is more virulent: those who survive the brain congestion and the raging temperatures (up to 110° before death) often suffer some mental impairment or partial paralysis. The one mitigating factor is that the disease, though common among animals in the eastern U.S., Canada and South America...
What happened next was one more striking example of how a cool, quickwitted doctor can often cheat death with only the most rudimentary tools. The surgeon quickly sliced open the chest cavity to massage the heart, but it went into ventricular fibrillation, a useless twitching that is fatal unless the heart is shocked back into a normal beat. An electric defibrillator was needed. St. Margaret's had none, but Dr. Jacobs knew what...
...biggest Hollywood business about the Dodgers was the comeback of veterans who had not starred since the glory days in Brooklyn. First Baseman Gil Hodges, 35, was again tough in the clutch (79 runs-batted-in), despite a taped ankle and forearm. Although he often rode the bench when southpaws began to throw. Outfielder Duke Snider, 33, had once again found his home-run bat (23). The Dodgers were even getting mileage out of gimpy Carl Furillo, 37, who explained: "I look at the ball, and I see dollar signs instead of stitches...
...season, canny old (38) Warren Spahn curved the Braves into a first-place tie with a 3-2 victory over the Phils, to win the 267th game of his 15-season major-league career. The Giants' Sad Sam ("Toothpick") Jones. 33 (TIME, Sept. 21), had pitched so often that his battered right arm swung like a pendulum. But somehow Sam managed to no-hit the Cards 4-0 in a game stopped by rain after seven innings, kept his third-place team in contention...
...commercial publishing. Soaring costs have fostered the hit psychology of the Broadway theater, forced commercial publishers to shy away from nonfiction books that are likely to sell less than a break-even 8,000 copies. The university presses have no such profit-and-loss problems. As taxexempt, nonprofit enterprises, often bolstered by subsidies, they can afford to keep slow sellers in print as long as they prove useful. Result: more and more commercially marginal but eminently important books are being handed over to the universities. And the presses in turn are starting to attract first-rate editors and designers...