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...Asian mutant of the type A group that caused the last notable epidemic two years ago. Though both virus types cause disease outbreaks in cycles, their peaks occur at different intervals and almost never co incide. Outbreaks of Asian, or A2, flu (which has supplanted the older plain A and A1, or "A prime") run in two-or three-year cycles; they may flare up again later this winter or w?ait until next. Type B flu runs in four-to six-year cycles. The U.S. has had none to speak of since 1955, so an outbreak was due this...
...from the Finns. But next day Khrushchev relaxed his muscle, granted Kekkonen's request for an indefinite postponement of the joint military consultations. In the meantime, Kekkonen's chief rival for the presidency in next year's elections withdrew from the race, assuring Kekkonen of another six-year term as chief of state. This may have been the Kremlin's goal all along, for in the past Khrushchev has usually found Kekkonen's nimble neutrality satisfactory enough...
...human scale." By this he means conventional weapons, guerrilla warfare, militia organizations, underground activity. When it is pointed out to him that about 40 million people were killed "conventionally" in World War II, Hughes points to this fact: the casualties in World War II occurred "over a six-year period in a very widely extended territory, most of them in the countryside rather than in the cities, at least as many by starvation and hardship as by violent death," while in a nuclear war the deaths would occur in "the holocaust of a day or two." This to Hughes makes...
...After a six-year eclipse, Flygirl Jacqueline Cochran, fiftyish, reclaimed the title of the world's fastest female. Piloting a T-38 twin-jet trainer at 842.6 m.p.h. over a speedway at California's Edwards Air Force Base, the high-level cosmetician (Jacqueline Cochran, Inc.) surpassed the 1955 record of France's Jacqueline Auriol by 127 m.p.h...
...Fame (he received 222 votes to 215 for Babe Ruth), Cobb was a superb athlete. But, like the hero of a Greek tragedy, he had a fatal flaw: his compulsion to win was too strong. Cantankerous and mean, he was heartily hated by his Tiger teammates-particularly during his six-year hitch (1921-26) as player-manager-and got involved in countless brawls. He fought a bloody battle with Umpire George Moriarity, once stormed the New York grandstand to attack a crippled heckler. His two marriages ended in bitterness and divorce...