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When Carlos was six, his story runs, his parents took their only child back and lavished guilty affection on him. "It was a hellish year," he says flatly, "because I was living with two children." But a year later his mother died. The doctors' diagnosis was pneumonia, but Castaneda's is accidie, a condition of numbed inertia, which he believes is the cultural disease of the West. He offered a touching memory: "She was morose, very beautiful and dissatisfied; an ornament. My despair was that I wanted to make her something else, but how could she listen...
Died. Hans Globke, 74, durable German bureaucrat who became a powerful figure in the postwar government of Konrad Adenauer; of pneumonia; in Bad Godesberg. A career civil servant who first served the Weimar Republic, Globke adapted to Nazi rule in the '30s and helped interpret the 1935 Nuremberg Laws, which deprived Jews of German citizenship. He later maintained that he had done his best to thwart the laws, and despite a public outcry, Globke returned to government after the war. He was appointed State Secretary by Adenauer in 1953, and during the next ten years became...
...when most babies are active and curious, Oliver Clark lay motionless in his crib, indifferent to his surroundings and gasping from pneumonia that he could not seem to shake. Oliver's prospects for active toddlerhood hardly improved when doctors discovered his problem: a hole in the wall separating the two ventricles, or pumping chambers, of his heart. Oliver was just a year old. Usually such patients do not undergo conventional open-heart surgery until they are at least two, and in the interim normal development may be seriously retarded. In Oliver's case, a team of surgeons...
...noted a substantial increase in influenza-like disease on the island of Oahu, particularly among teen-agers and young children. No area appears to have been harder hit than northern California. Since Dec. 20, health authorities in Santa Clara County have blamed 20 deaths, mainly among the elderly, on pneumonia, a frequent complication of flu. In the same period, the county has filed 19 certificates in which the flu itself was listed as the cause of death...
...viruses that have DNA cores, may be potent against variola, the virus of smallpox. During the April-May epidemic in Bangladesh, they gave ara-C by continuous-drip injection to nine victims. Seven made rapid recoveries with minimal scarring, one showed no benefit, and one died (apparently of variolar pneumonia). By contrast, among 97 untreated cases in the district, there were 42 deaths. The doctors suggest that these preliminary results are encouraging enough to warrant further tests...