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...when the measles virus attacks the brain, as it does in an estimated 4,000 U.S. cases of encephalitis each year. Last week, in the Journal of the A.M.A., a team of U.C.L.A. pediatricians reported finding traces of the virus in the nervous system during the active, red-rash phase of the disease. The discovery casts doubt on the idea that encephalitis is an aftereffect, and it lends a sense of urgency to the preventive campaigns...
...Windshield Factor. Adding to the problem was the fact that catastrophes occurred on top of an unusual rash of mere disasters. A Pennsylvania Railroad train derailment cost Travelers Insurance Co. $500,000. In the worst fire of the year, 53 men died in a missile-silo explosion at Searcy, Ark.; the entire insurance loss, amounting to almost $1,000,000, was borne by Aetna Life & Casualty Co. Most important, injuries and damage from auto accidents-which account for 40% of all casualty business-reached an alltime high. Not only were accidents more numerous, but they cost more; a smashed windshield...
...three to four seconds and up to ten or twelve seconds of "agonized physical effort." ∙RESOLUTION. After an unusually intense orgasm, this phase may drop a woman into deep sleep within a minute or two. ("Postorgasmic sleep" had previously been regarded as a male characteristic.) The measles-like rash fades, the engorged vessels of the pelvis and breasts relax to permit the resumption of normal blood flow, and the vagina subsides into a state that facilitates the movement of sperm to ovum for conception...
...insurance companies would like to forget the past year. The Watts riots cost them $44 million in damage claims. Windstorms in Belgium, fires in the Philippines and a rash of burglaries in Switzerland drained additional huge sums. Then there was Hurricane Betsy, which did an estimated $750 million worth of damage, bringing on the worst single losses in insurance history...
...debate over the Viet Nam war has produced a rash of newsletters, proclamations and manifestoes, most of which are forgotten almost as soon as they are written. Two new magazines devoted to the subject, however, seem determined to last as long as the war. Viet-Report, a monthly, stands foursquare against U.S. policy in Viet Nam; Vietnam Perspectives, a bimonthly, generally backs it. The magazines agree on hardly anything, not even basic facts. "Communism is the only regime capable of saving Asia from anarchy, misery and extortion," says a writer in Viet-Report. Replies a contributor to Perspectives: "Communism...