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...Dant, and Phillips Petroleum. Now there was no stopping Listerine. Lambert developed a formula for Listerine tooth paste, turning out a batch himself with a hand press. "Early I reasoned that a new appeal for the same product would be like plowing virgin territory. We started advertising Listerine for sore throat and for dandruff. Then we used the appeal of after shaving...
...children and adults who catch it, German measles (rubella) is almost invariably a trivial infection with slight fever, sore throat and fast-disappearing rash. But contracted by a woman during pregnancy, especially in the first three months, rubella is often hideously deforming or fatal to her unborn child...
Gamal Abdel Nasser felt the strain too. From the night of the first Anglo-French air assault on his country, Egypt's strongman had remained constantly at his old revolutionary headquarters on Cairo's Gezira Island. Last week, plagued by a persistent sore throat, he moved back to his Cairo home. He had been averaging only three or four hours' sleep nightly, and had not helped matters by refusing to obey doctors' orders to stop smoking. All week he stayed indoors, and for the first time since the invasion, failed to keep up his almost daily...
...Nasser, sore throat and all, set to work reorganizing Egypt's battered armed forces and totting up his new economic worries. With canal revenues blocked along with the canal, and with Egypt's cotton income mortgaged for years to pay for Communist weapons, Nasser was likely to find himself more than ever in need of economic help-from the West if possible-if he was to keep both his power and his promises...
...heartening U.S. achievements, the heartbreaking failure of Australia's John Landy spoiled the day. Testing his sore legs for the first time in weeks against topflight competition, the world's fastest miler finished eleventh in a two-mile run. "This could be the end," said the dejected champ. "Every step was an effort. There's no time...