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...Three days later, the Tunku (from Kuala Lumpur) announced that the missing Tun had been turned in. In Canberra, the protocol chieftain explained that "a good Samaritan" had brought him back in a car from Sydney, 200 miles away, after a ten-day absence. The mysterious Samaritan was said to have found the envoy, ill and vomiting, wandering in Sydney shortly after he disappeared, cared for him during the next eight days, and conveniently discovered who he was for the first time on the ninth...
Freelancer Wendell Merick arrived in late 1964 for a ten-day visit and has hung on ever since, working as a stringer for ABC and the London Daily Express. "Whenever I thought of leaving," he says, "something else blew up-and I just stayed." The Australian Broadcasting Commission's Donald Simmons plans to stay "as long as I don't get knocked off. Why give up the best news story in the world in favor of pushing a pen behind a desk?" Malcolm Browne, formerly of the Associated Press, has been awarded a fellowship and will leave soon...
...elusive Polish officials. In effect, he made him his envoy to Eastern Europe, with specific marching orders to travel and to build as many new bridges as possible between the U.S. and the Communist nations. Last week Gronouski finished the first phase of that mission, a tempestuous, ten-day tour of Rumania, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria aimed at scouting the chances for improved East-West trade relations...
...flushes and sweats that are the warning signs of oncoming menopause, Dr. Wilson prescribes estrogen tablets daily for seven to 21 days a month, adjusting the dosage until her femininity index is restored to 80% or better. For a woman with more severe symptoms, he prescribes estrogens plus a ten-day course of a synthetic progesterone substitute. A woman who is clearly past the menopause gets estrogen daily for six weeks plus a progestin tablet on each of the last ten days. The effect of this treatment is to restore a pseudomenstrual cycle of about seven weeks, with some bleeding...
With 30 returned volunteers and three top Washington staff members as bait, the Peace Corps will open a ten-day recruiting drive at Harvard and Radcliffe on Monday...