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Fatal Symptoms. Suspecting an adverse reaction to the vaccine, doctors admitted the boy to St. Rita's Hospital in Lima, where tests strongly suggested that he had contracted the disease. They then began a desperate battle to save the youngster by treating not the infection itself-which responds to drugs poorly, if at all, once it has begun -but the secondary effects that kill its victims. Placing Matthew in intensive care, they put a tube in his throat to enable him to breathe and prevent him from choking on his own saliva. They also monitored his heart to assure...
...RITA ATKINS...
...measure of a masterpiece is the amount of abuse it can take. The hit tunes from dozens of operas have been ragged, jived, jazzed, boogied, swung and popped-and most of them have emerged little the worse. Carmen, especially, has survived countless transmutations. Geraldine Farrar, Theda Bara and Rita Hayworth all vamped their way through screen versions; Bea Lillie mauled it at the Met. Maya Plisetskaya danced it to an orchestration including 47 percussion instruments. Oscar Hammerstein's Carmen Jones gave Bizet's gypsy girl a surname and set her to work packing parachutes in the Deep South...
...almost perfect target for the Women's Liberation Movement. Passion fashions are clearly male-chauvinist and designed to turn females into mere sex objects. That is part of their nostalgic appeal. In the world of Frederick's, the bra not only endures, it prevails. The allure of Rita Hayworth, circa 1945, lives...
...speakers, Rita Arditti, a researcher at the Medical School, said administrators at the Medical School had secretly planned a child-care center that would be for students and faculty only. She said that the way in which the Administration had ignored the needs of the workers had taught her that the group must be more militant...