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...pressure suit, says the Air Force, is nothing like those brief, becoming space suits worn in the comics. It will keep a man alive in a virtual vacuum for about ten minutes, but he breathes with difficulty. His hands, not fully pressurized, swell up with blue venous blood. His throat is another trouble spot: the medicos have not learned how to pressurize a throat without strangling its owner...
When Bela Schick was still a boy in Hungary, German researchers tracked down the microbe which causes diphtheria, and isolated the poisonous secretion which makes a strange, strangling membrane grow across many a victim's throat. They got as far as developing a horse serum which could be used either as a preventive against the disease or as a remedy after it had struck. But so many people got sick from the serum itself that doctors hated to give it as a preventive unless they could be sure that it was really necessary. They needed a test to show...
...result was a race riot which blazed for seven hours. Unafraid, Sister Aidan (real name: Dr. Elsie Quinlan) drove through the police lines and greeted her Negro friends. Some of them tried to shield her, but a howling mob, chanting "Africa!" dragged her, unresisting, from her car, cut her throat, and burned her mutilated corpse...
...bore. Kissing can be not only a pleasant but a harmless pastime if ordinary lip and mouth hygiene is practiced." But Dr. Bryan still refuses a flat answer to the original question. If the partner happens to be in the early stages of a serious infection (such as strep throat), a kiss can still be dangerous. It involves a calculated risk...
...spirit, but it's also a little embarrassing. The introduction to the new Miss Davis in the second scene of Two's Company is abrupt and somewhat painful. She manages her high kicks with admirable but all too obvious effort, and her rasping, often inaudible singing voice inspires vicarious throat-clearing in the audience...