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When a human victim of viral infection gets a stuffy head and a sore throat, or suffers a splitting headache and the feeling that his bones are breaking, or develops the blisters of cold sores or the rash of measles, his body is reacting to the biochemical disturbances that come from invasion by viruses. Viruses kill millions of people around the world every year, and give the miseries to hundreds of millions more...
...York Times Broadway Critic Howard Taubman last week nervously cleared his throat and wrote: "It is time to speak openly and candidly of the increasing influence and incidence of homosexuality on New York's stage . . . The public is deluded and misled if polite pretenses are accepted at face value...
Past the Grave. Firbank was as queer a bird as ever fluttered. Pathological shyness contorted his thin frame. It constricted his throat so that he could hardly eat in company; at a dinner given for him, he managed to down one green pea. At his club, he once took fright at the sight of the headwaiter and hid under the table. He had, of course, an independent income (poor people with Firbank's temperament simply die or are shut away). He came from solid stock: his grandfather worked his way up from the coal mines to become a contractor...
...crime." Independent-minded young Russians think none the better of Mayakovsky for Stalin's seal of approval. But they remember the unfinished last poem in which he derided the regime's "gang of self-seeking poets and rogues." Communist propaganda, wrote Mayakovsky, "sticks in my throat...
...effectively relieved of their pain and the suffering that so often develops in the terminal stages of cancer." Five others had incomplete but "worthwhile" relief; one failed to obtain significant benefit. Another's pain was effectively relieved but the patient succumbed to pneumonia spreading from infected cancerous tissue in throat...