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...Queen was coming, and many French Canadians thought Elizabeth of England was unwelcome. Like an old sore suddenly scraped open, French nationalism is raging anew in Quebec after two centuries of British domination. An impatient generation of French Canadians demands more autonomy and a stronger voice in the country's affairs. Some even preach outright secession from English Canada; the more passionate have been punctuating their cries with mailbox bombings, arms raids and threats against the Queen's visit-even her life...
...this season. Three have come on passes from Roberts to Roger Dennis, a junior wingback. Roberts has scored the other two himself on runs. In both games he has passed for more than 200 yards and he has completed 26 of 68 passes. He explains apologetically that a sore thumb has kept him below his career record of completing 60 per cent of his passes...
...McComb was always a sore spot for the young nonviolents, and a song came out of the area, called We Shall Never Turn Back. One verse goes...
...most of its victims, the cold sore that breaks out on the lips is an annoying, repetitive sign of a not too serious infection. But unlike its more benign viral cousins that cause the common cold, the herpes simplex virus that produces cold sores or fever blisters can in rare instances cause blindness, if it spreads to the eye, and death, if it reaches the brain. For years medical researchers have unsuccessfully attempted to concoct a herpes vaccine that would provide immunity...
Last week the British Medical Jour nal finally noted some encouraging news for cold-sore sufferers; in Paris, a team of Pasteur Institute virologists, led by Dr. Pierre Lépine, has developed a vaccine that shows definite promise. They grew herpes simplex virus in cultures of kidney cells taken from sheep embryos; then the live virus was inactivated by exposure to ultraviolet light. As part of the testing program, the vaccine was injected into 20 patients who suffered from recurrent cold sores. After one year, eleven of the patients have had no recurrence of their herpes simplex eruptions, seven...