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...Pacific Coast. The Mexicans gave the stranded flyers shelter-which was all they had to give. The grateful Americans returned a few weeks later with food, clothing and toys. Dr. Dale Hoyt took his medical bag along. Hearing that there was a doctor in town, one woman with pneumonia walked four miles to see him. El Rosario had never had a fulltime doctor. Those who were sick traveled 55 miles to another town-or stayed sick...
First warning was the telltale eye-stinging vapor that old Londoners know so well. Out went the Red Alert to 200 hospitals, which went on a disaster standby in readiness for elderly patients, who are most susceptible to smog-induced pneumonia and bronchitis (or the "English disease," as it has long been known on the Continent). Ambulances searching for victims clanged their bells frantically, but could not extricate themselves from the vast rush-hour traffic jams. Not until the third day did London Transport authorities surrender to "very adverse weather conditions"; then, at last, they ordered their 5,000 buses...
...publishers with such expense-account items as 10? for wolfbane after covering a wolf hunt, and tickled his readers with such feats as hiring a taxicab during the "phony" war of 1939 to tootle past France's Maginot Line and inspect the Nazis' Siegfried Line; of pneumonia; in Chicago...
...neither drank nor smoked. But at 72 he could beat opponents half his age at tennis. He played a savage game of chess until he was 85, when he gave it up because he found it was too exciting. At 86, after recovering from a brief bout with pneumonia, the first thing he did was call for his Indian clubs. When he was 90, he got on a Boston subway, rode to Cambridge, picked up an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard, tucked it under his arm, got back on the subway and went home again...
Taskmaster for the border war is Lieut. General Brij Mohan Kaul, 50, a Kashmiri Brahman distantly related to Prime Minister Nehru. When the Chinese Reds overwhelmed the Indian border posts last month, General Kaul was absent-ill with pneumonia, he had been evacuated, almost by force, to New Delhi. Now fully recovered and back at his headquarters in Tezpur, Kaul is determined to regain all the lost territory. The task is formidable. By an accident of geography, the Himalayan border is more easily reached from the Chinese-held Tibetan plateau than from the plains of India. Kaul's army...