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...worst since the discovery of the disease at an American Legion convention in Philadelphia in the summer of 1976, when 181 people were hospitalized and 29 died. Only the prompt decision of the Vermont doctors-made before they had the results from Atlanta-to administer erythromycin kept the toll from climbing higher; the antibiotic is the only one known so far to be effective against Legionnaires' disease...
...schizophrenia does take its toll in some ways, she says. Alexandra doesn't always feel either of her two worlds; "I'm very conscious that I don't fit into any group: I have a lot of friends, but not in any one area," she says. And occasionally she finds Harvard life very frustrating. "I have to hold myself back here," she says, "I want to get going with my career." But Alexandra considers herself an actress, above all, and prides herself on being able to play various roles with genuine feeling. She describes herself as "moody": sometimes, she says...
...relentless as the toll of the years may be, doctors still find it extremely difficult to generalize about when old age begins. By popular reckoning in the U.S., the watershed year is 65. Yet there is such variability in the human condition that it is scientifically impossible to select a single year as the turning point, even for small groups of people. As Author-Physician Leopold Bellak points out: "Some people who are chronologically 80 are biologically only 60. Their bones, eyes, ears, skin-even reflexes and blood pressure -may be those one expects in a 60-year-old." Complicating...
...rain took its toll on the remaining three Crimson linksters, as Spence Fitzgibbons went around in 85, Jim Dales piled up an 88, and George Arnold, who was missing his umbrella, took a soggy...
...work takes its toll on the runners' bodies, as evidenced by assorted sore muscles, Meyer's sore foot, and Rafto's ailments, which have led him to monopolize the heating pads. "Rafto and training camp are a very unsuited couple," McCurdy says. "He's just a physical mess...