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...Partial Relief. Those complaining of loss of the sense of taste said that eating was like chewing and swallowing flour paste or sawdust. Those suffering from loss of the sense of smell reported that they were unable to detect the aroma of foods or the odors of smoke or escaping cooking gas. Several women reported that they had served rancid foods to their families because they did not notice the spoilage...
...large degree, the success of Tito's latest experiment depends on Yugoslavia's continuing prosperity. After enjoying a miniboom for nearly a decade, the economy, which manages to combine capitalistic profit incentives within a Communist frame- work, has run into a severe inflationary problem. Despite a partial price and wage freeze last December, the cost of living is now rising at an annual rate of about 14%. A 20% devaluation of the dinar early this year failed to quench the thirst for foreign goods or boost Yugoslav exports. As a consequence, Yugoslavia has a trade deficit...
...massive stroke last winter and was flown to Honolulu, where he got the best treatment that Western medicine can offer. He made a good but partial recovery. Back in Phnom-Penh, he asked for acupuncture. For a month a Taiwanese doctor inserted needles as deep as three inches in Lon Nol's muscles and joints; the patient improved further. Of course, a stroke victim who is fortunate enough to have a good initial recovery usually will continue to progress for a year or two; added benefit from treatment cannot be assessed...
...attempt to measure the costs of war is to handle the quicksilver of suffering with clumsy fingers. Although much of the toll is beyond quantifying, some reckoning is possible. The Library of Congress has just completed a study for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that provides a partial accounting of Viet Nam expenditures...
...flood of November 1966 will provoke people to expend large sums of money on saving art that they do not own. Because of the publicity campaigns mounted by organizations to save Venice from decaying into an empty, waterlogged Renaissance Disneyland, it may yet stand some chance of at least partial preservation as a city. But the Parthenon, under the influence of time, weather, vibration and industrial fumes, is turning to sand; and all over Italy, Spain and France there is a slow and apparently irreversible destruction of art by pollution, economic progress, neglect and age. This immense but rapidly shrinking...