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...benefit of Dr. Conn's aldosterone research was no tropic-bound G.I., but a 34-year-old Michigan woman whose high blood pressure (170 over 100) was accompanied by unusual features. She had muscular weakness and cramps, had to drink and urinate frequently; her low-salt sweat and abysmally low level of potassium in the blood indicated an excess of aldosterone. A medical team traced her trouble to a small tumor on her right adrenal gland, which was pumping out a flood of aldosterone although there was no excess of other adrenal hormones. Surgeons removed her tumor...
...just a bad dream? Two plainclothesmen burst into his bedroom, order him to dress, refuse to say what law he has broken, badger him for bribes, steal his best shirts, subject him to an apparently pointless "interrogation." And then breeze off, leaving K. in a sweat. Were they really plainclothesmen-or were they crooks? Is he really arrested-or is the whole affair a practical joke? "I've done nothing wrong," he reflects uneasily, "and still I feel guilty...
...Maycomb, Alabama, was a tired old town in the '30s. "Grass grew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then. Ladies bathed before noon, after their three o'clock naps, and by nightfall were like soft tea-cakes with frostings of sweat and sweet talcum. People moved slowly. There was no hurry, for there was nowhere to go, nothing to buy and no money to buy it with. But it was a time of vague optimism. Maycomb County had recently been told that it had nothing to fear but fear itself...
...task force working on the cover story in France was mobilized by Paris Bureau Chief Curtis Prendergast ("It was a week of sweat, sandwiches and Coca-Cola"), who handled the broad assessment of the situation himself, while assigning Correspondents Judson Gooding to report on the French political temper, Jeremy Main on the effects in NATO, James Wilde on the French business reaction, Godfrey Blunden on an analysis of the Soviet view. Their files, along with reports from TIME bureaus in Washington, Bonn, London and Rome, poured into New York, where Writer Robert McLaughlin, with the aid of Researcher Vera Kovarsky...
...after four years of sweating Harvard sweat, it will still mean the same thing. Of course, when I pin my diploma on my shirt, the white world won't act like it doesn't respect me. I'll still be "the nigger" but, when I show my trophy, the world will bend to necessity. It's so funny. There'll be no real necessity--just habit. I might even, some day, become Ralph Bunche or, in forty years, Bobby Kennedy. But then, I'll still be nigger to the man on the train. Yes, it's funny, pathetically funny...