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...after effect of a streptococcal infection. May occur in childhood (when it is known as Still's disease) or late in life, but is commonest in the 305, when it strikes three times as many women as men. (Possibly related is rheumatoid spondylitis, or arthritis of the spine, which singles out young men.) Usually attacks virtually all joints in the limbs. Difficult to diagnose, but in 1930 Dr. Russell L. Cecil, now medical director of the Arthritis and Rheumatism Foundation, discovered a clumping factor in the blood serum of patients that has led to a promising test...
...conclusion on this vital matter." There were strong reasons for the government's hesitation. British entry into a European free-trade area would involve painful adjustments. While some factories would prosper and expand, others would go out of business-a prospect to send cold chills down the spine of many a British industrialist. Some labor leaders were sure to make a fist at the very suggestion of even temporary disruptions of employment...
...unusually large one, which has been in the Brennan family for seven years. Its name is Throck-morton, but it usually answers to "Here, Kitty." Its tail and spine were damaged two years ago in an automobile accident...
...brand-new two-story annex. Wrote Shinso's reporter: "I looked around at the rich artistic material used in building the annex, and when I reflected it all had been paid for with the money of poor working people, I felt a cold fury pass down my spine...
...bullets hit Somoza in the right forearm and broke it. Two others lodged painfully in his right shoulder and right thigh. The fourth, Dr. Heaton found, was the most serious: it had entered through the upper right thigh and stopped at the base of the spine. The doctor's recommendation was an operation at the Canal Zone's famed Gorgas Hospital. At 3 a.m. a blue ambulance crept through the lonely, moonlit streets of Managua. Only four hours after Heaton's Constellation reached Managua, it was headed toward Panama with Somoza, his wife, and the task force...