Word: summonings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After some light reading at Out-of-Town Newspapers (Le Figaro for 60 cents, the Crime for a dime), you summon up your energy for a final push up Brattle. The Lodge has coats, pants and sundry for gentlemen of varying fashion persuasions up to 50 per cent off. Cardullo's food shop doesn't believe in sales ("that's for supermarkets"), but with each purchase of Bulmer's Cider you get a free horoscope book...
Edward Falk, a 43-year-old New Jersey carpenter, could not work last year because of shortness of breath. By early October he could not even summon up enough wind to get out of bed. His complaint was emphysema, a condition in which the myriad tiny sacs on the inner surface of the lungs become blistered, scarred and fibrous. With their loss of elasticity, they lose the capacity to exchange carbon dioxide and life-sustaining oxygen. Once considered an uncommon disease, emphysema is now being diagnosed much more often. In most cases, as in Falk's, the underlying cause...