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...into a finishing school for a lovely sun-kissed Hindu teen-ager named Kumari. Race-conscious troublemakers start spreading ugly rumors. What happens to Greenwood and who gets Kumari makes for a skin-prickling ending that will either have readers biting their nails or sharpening them on the throat of any kill-joy who gives it away...
...they called on the village headman to lead them to the house of Vegetable Farmer Chou Yin-san. Said a villager later: "The headman had to show them Chou's house. After he did, they didn't say anything. Chou looked at them inquiringly. They slit his throat." By this act (standard for suspected police informers), the Communists signaled to all Southeast Asia the fact that they were as ruthlessly opposed to the now democratic government of Malaya as they had been to colonialism...
...Virginia the Episcopalians had their try at stamping out the Baptists. When two Baptists were mobbed and brought to trial for disturbing the peace ("They cannot meet a man upon the road," said the prosecuting attorney, "but they must ram a text of scripture down his throat!") a young Episcopal lawyer named Patrick Henry rode 50 miles to defend them...
...intestine is not the only organ troubled by the Monilia fungus. This microorganism was first found in the throat (in cases of thrush), also occurs regularly in the vagina. Many women who take aureomycin or related antibiotics develop a stubborn inflammation of the vagina and perineal region. Sometimes the organism spreads over large areas and reaches the lungs or brain heart or kidneys. There have been cases in which a child's entire body has been covered with itchy inflammation. In treating such cases of moniliasis, still another antibiotic has been found to help undo the harm wrought...
...vaccine was made by the same process as the Salk polio vaccine, using formaldehyde to inactivate the virus. The virus is one of the group that doctors ponderously call adenoidal-pharyngeal-conjunctival (from the tissues it attacks), or APC* for short. This particular APC virus causes sore throat, eye inflammation, and a fever lasting about five days...