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...given Scripture such a generous helping hand; the new Ten Commandments will cost an estimated $6,000,000 to make, and will have what Paramount's publicity department calls "the largest film set in motion-picture history." DeMille feels that the present trend toward Bible movies is a symptom that "the world is beginning to realize how deep the trouble is that it is in, and that there is only one way out-the law laid down by Moses and its interpretation by Jesus and Mohammed and other great religious leaders...
...perhaps for the first time in months. There is no thought that chlorpromazine is any cure for mental illness, but it can have great value if it relaxes patients and makes them accessible to treatment. The extremely agitated or anxious types often give up compulsive behavior, a surface symptom of their illness. It is, says Dr. Scull, as though the patients said, "I know there's something disturbing me, but I couldn't care less...
...hands and feet were blue and cold; she perspired so heavily that her bedclothes had to be changed soon after she fell asleep; her blood pressure skyrocketed and plummeted inexplicably; when she had a temper tantrum, which was often, she broke out in red blotches. But her strangest symptom sounded like something out of a fairy tale: no matter how hard she cried, there were no tears...
...strike as a protest against the arrest of its president, Clotario Blest, who had made a rabble-rousing speech denouncing President Carlos Ibanez and his Cabinet as "traitors to the fatherland." Blest was released on bail a fortnight ago, but the strike was called anyway. It was an ugly symptom of the nation's sickness...
Doctors used to think they could relax about hepatitis after the end of a major war. "Infectious jaundice" (as it was commonly called from its most obvious symptom) was regarded as a disease of wartime camps with poor sanitation; peacetime outbreaks were relatively few and usually limited to overcrowded institutions such as orphanages, mental hospitals and prisons. Today, inflammation of the liver as a result of invasion by a virus is becoming a major health problem in the workaday, peacetime...