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After four weeks in bed with a severe bout of bronchial pneumonia, West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was up and about again. The old man (he will be 80 next January) was still confined to his villa overlooking the Rhine, but he called in his Cabinet officers and kept up with the news from Geneva (see above). Doctors had advised a three-month vacation in Sicily, but der Alte would have none of it. "A leave of convalescence does not seem required," said a bulletin from Bonn...
...distressful ailments known to laymen as colds, grippe, flu and viral pneumonia make up a spectrum of illnesses for which doctors have long had fancier names but no cures and mostly so-so vaccines. Last week the U.S. Public Health Service announced a breakthrough in the campaign against these assorted "upper respiratory infections": a vaccine that appears to be effective against a common one, Type 3, in the grippe family...
...rain had in fact let up only once during the previous 24 hours, with the result that those who went to the game had resolved long before to stay until pneumonia set in. But it was at the moment when the downpour slackened that the editors of the Daily Princetonian came out to attempt distribution of a parody of the CRIMSON. That was about 6 a.m. Saturday...
After grittily ignoring his sneezes and sniffles for several days, West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 79, was bedded down in Bonn with bronchitis, a fever of 104°, a later complication of bronchial pneumonia. At week's end, he was "considerably improved," but his countrymen were chillingly reminded that der Alte cannot lead them forever...
...parasitology and the study of fungus diseases. Dr. Moss has a fascinating personal medical record. Born in Pearlington, Miss., she started life as a 3-lb. premature baby in a cotton-lined shoebox beside an open fireplace. Since then, she has overcome rabbit fever, acute gangrenous appendicitis, peritonitis, lobar pneumonia and mammary cancer...