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Europe's most prevalent symptom is a racking cough. Its undernourished people, though spared (thanks to UNRRA and private relief) from the dramatic pestilences that usually follow war, are succumbing by thousands to the insidious white plague of tuberculosis. Last week an Associated Press survey in Europe confirmed what many doctors have feared: T.B., on the rise for the first time in a century, is now Europe's No. 1 killer...
...Faust. In it two men and a ballerina maneuver to upstage each other; one mugs shamelessly, another surreptitiously corrects a pose, or looks bewildered and terrified when he can't remember what he is expected to do next. Good clean fun, and skillfully done, it is also a symptom of ballet's present introversion. Pas de Trois was postponed twice because of Ballerina Alicia Markova's illness, was finally put on without her. Critics found her substitute, veteran dancer Rosella Hightower, a good dancer if not yet a great...
...Leprosy, caused by a germ (Mycobacteria. leprae) resembling that of tuberculosis, attacks the skin and peripheral nerves. The first symptom is loss of sensation in the skin. Reddish spots develop, then nodules (lumps), particularly on the face. In late stages the disease may rot away the nose, ears, hands, feet...
...before hysterical cries of inefficiency and indifference are bandied about, a closer glimpse at the picture might be appropriate. Survey of the dental situation in the Boston area would show that the University's problem is merely a symptom of a general trend. Throughout New England, throughout the entire nation, the tale of woe seems to be the same--overworked dentists and doctors, overcrowded hospitals, everywhere besieged by long waiting lines...
...Lake Success, Molotov told U.N. that Russia not only favored disarmament but was willing to accept (subject, of course, to the veto) inspection and international control of disarmament enforcement. That was related to such phenomena as the fact that inflation, a symptom of production shortages, is mounting in Russia. (In September a single food price jump trebled the cost of eating...