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...intelligent aspect of the re-vote rules is the definite time limit put on the casting of ballots. The voting will end a week from Wednesday and the final tally will not be made until that evening; the tantalizing vagueness surrounding the end of the last ballot will not recur...
...pains"), nosebleeds, loss of appetite and weight, twitching resembling St. Vitus' dance-are easily confused with the symptoms of grippe and other ailments. Patients may recover from an attack without permanent damage, often without knowing they were really sick. But unless the patient gets skillful treatment, R.F. may .recur...
...last week Dr. Dragstedt's operation, now tested by many another surgeon, had stirred plenty of interest among ulcer specialists. Because peptic ulcers may recur in five-year cycles, Dr. Dragstedt and other investigators were not yet ready to pronounce the three-year-old operation a permanent cure. But so far, there had been no relapse after a vagus operation...
...doctor cheerily avoids the word "cancer"? Again, eight out of ten might consent to surgery; but some, if their cancers recur, "will blame the doctor by stating that the operation was not worthwhile" and say that they would never have consented if they had known the true nature of their disease. And two might refuse surgery until too late because they had not been warned clearly of their condition...
Famine was tightening its grip on the subcontinent. Sir A. Ramaswami Mudaliar warned of "ten million dead on the streets of India" unless he could buy four million tons of grain this year in the U.S.* Independence alone would not answer the food problem, which would recur until India had more irrigation, more fertilizer, better agricultural methods and more industry. Many Indian leaders looked to the U.S. for machinery and technical advice. The most practical immediate step would be a U.S. loan to Britain, which would permit London to pay off much of its wartime debt to India...