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...Ulcer victims who swill milk and assorted alkalies can do themselves more harm than good; Dr. Edward Kessler of Albany, N.Y. has seen three patients in one year who were petrifying themselves by clogging their kidneys with excess calcium. Other doctors have reported seven deaths. The danger to life increases with the duration and degree of the self-medication, especially with sodium bicarbonate and its proprietary relatives...
Downtown Djakarta sprawls rank and sullen in the fetid subequatorial heat. Wilhelmina Park, once the pride of the city's stolid Dutch proconsuls, now lies half given back to the jungle, its cracked statuary staring vacantly above a graveyard of wrecked jeeps, trucks and armored vehicles. Swill and offal clog the canal that cuts through the main shopping center, and along its banks people gather in family clusters to bathe, brush their teeth, defecate or wash clothes. Hideously deformed beggars swarm the approaches to even the humblest...
...seconds. You got to go to another dinning room, and then they make you show a gray and green Commons Card to get in. Some of those Yankees swill down three meals a night...
...hairfashion, what tempting hair design, is in the ascendant these days? The answer is that no one really knows. It is whispered in some circles that hair is going to be worn more daringly this season but as yet no one knows how daringly. Perhaps the most fearless hairdresser swill venture to adorn a few choice heads with some of the unspeakably modern hairdos which are sifting out of the Balkans these days. But beyond this it is impossible to tell...
...rain hit the city. Ricksha boys and sampan coolies sought refuge in dry alleyways where they spent hours culling their tattered palm-frond raincoats for lice. At night they slept on the sidewalks wrapped in dirty burlap bags awaking only to chase away marauding rats which feast in the swill-strewn streets after the city's human population has retired...