Word: rashness
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Cold Prestige. Air conditioning has a way to go to win full acceptance. It helps banish heat rash and heat-induced impetigo (known as "Hong Kong blister"), but older Asians blame it for everything from asthma to paralysis. Some businessmen refuse to cool offices for fear salesmen will not venture out; since Asians assume that a closed door means an absent merchant, others suffer the high cost of keeping their air conditioners on and their doors open. The biggest inconvenience is that many offices, for reasons of prestige, are kept so frigid that Oriental secretaries have to wear a couple...
When Rebecca Craighill Lancefield was a child around the turn of the century, scarlet fever seemed a dangerous disease that was easy enough to diagnose but difficult to treat. The victim got a raging sore throat, a high fever, and a rash that spread over most of his body and gave the illness its name. But physicians and bacteriologists found that though they could suppress the rash, they could do little else for their patients. Researchers also found that patients who had one bout of scarlet fever might never have another, but if they got the same kind of sore...
...Iowa, Nixon continued the attack, said that "unless we get a new Administration, the danger of war is greatly increased." He reminded his audience that giving some nuclear-weapons authority to the NATO commander is "what we're doing right now," and that "it is responsible and not rash...
Ever since Moscow and Peking openly split on Communist ideology, Mao Tse-tung's high command has been quietly cracking down on everyone rash enough to question the hard-line Marxism separating him from the hated Khrushchev revisionists. Apparently, the purges have not been too successful, for last week the shadow of dialectic oblivion was falling on Mao's two most influential victims so far, and it had be gun to look as if the biggest public brainwash since 1957 was not far away...
...Tory government had to own up last week to the fact that the trade gap had widened still further in August (see WORLD BUSINESS). Labor, whose promise to deliver growth without inflation hangs upon keeping Britain's petulant trade unions in line, was suddenly confronted with a scattered rash of unofficial strikes. And Labor got some bad news in the form of a forecast for good weather through Election Day. Analysts are convinced that part of the turn in Tory fortunes is the result of England's golden summer. This, plus the fact that individual Britons are basking...