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...foreign creditors, who have put up more than $3 billion to defend the pound. For if Wilson cannot hold down wage increases in a period when his other taxation and monetary measures are taking hold, all credibility in the value of the pound will be undercut; British export costs, swollen by excessive wage gains, will rise, slowing foreign sales of everything from cars and gin to razor blades and woolens. Particularly because his is a Labor government, Wilson's ability to rein in wage demands is almost the litmus test of his ability to set his economy in order...
...with besmirching the image of Lenin by imagining a room whose walls were papered with currency bearing Lenin's portrait. He had further smeared Soviet womanhood by writing: "You see women walking about the streets, looking like Eunuchs -waddling like pregnant dachshunds, or as scrawny as ostriches, with swollen bodies, varicose veins, wadded breasts or tight stays hidden under their clothes." The magistrates were greatly offended by Sinyavsky's suggestion that the government might transform human fetuses into fish to provide food for the people. The judges, lacking a sense of humor or satire, could...
Mumps, like measles, is one of those familiar childhood diseases that have long been minimized. Most of its vic tims are between five and ten, and usu ally they suffer no more than a few days of fever and headache, a swollen jaw and difficulty in swallowing. But those symptoms are increasingly being recognized as signs of a potentially serious medical problem. Virologists in many different laboratories have been working overtime to develop an effective preventive vaccine...
...catalogue of Ike's complaints is considerable: swollen and painful wrists and hands; a touch of arthritis in the left knee, presumably the result of an old football injury; bursitis in the left elbow, similar to some old trouble in his right shoulder. But neither for him nor his fellow sufferers is any preventive medicine effective. Indeed, it took Walter Reed's expert doctors weeks of tests before they could put the label "osteoarthritis" on their patient's wrist pains. After that, the prescription was as simple as the diagnosis had been painstaking: aspirin to ease...
...operation was a success. For five rounds, while Cooper lunged awkwardly about the outdoor ring, Clay concentrated his attack on Henry's left eyebrow. By the end of the fifth, Cooper's forehead was pink and swollen, and in the sixth it turned bright crimson. Lashing out with a classic one-two combination, Cassius opened up a gash so bloody one awed onlooker insisted that Cooper must be a bar-sinister Alfonso. The referee stopped the fight at 1 min. 38 sec. of the sixth round, and no more than a minute later Champion Clay was already announcing...