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This time trouble had come in an unexpected form. The deadly bacillus was not a familiar strain of Vibrio cholerae (or Vibrio comma, from its shape), for which a vaccine of sorts is available. Instead, it was a strain of the El Tor group of vibrios,* one which had previously confined its disease-causing activities to the Indonesian island of Celebes. Once this kind of El Tor got under way, it seemed unstoppable. It secured beachheads in South Korea, Taiwan, Red China and Burma. Last year it reached South Viet Nam and Japan. Then it spread into Iran and Uzbekistan...
Tougher & Faster. El Tor, long underestimated, is now bullying "classical" cholera off the map. In the British Medical Journal, Calcutta's Dr. Sachimohan Mukerjee reports evidence that if old-fashioned cholera and El Tor bacilli are put into the same test tube or invade the same human victim, El Tor will completely crowd out the "classical" vibrios. Not only is it a tougher bug; it also spreads faster. And a recovered El Tor victim may remain a menace by continuing to excrete the bacilli for as long as six months, as against a mere three weeks after classical cholera...
...their troops and their hold on the peasants. Alternatively, they could go into Phase 3 anyway, perhaps even with a mass assault of divisional size on U S units in the hope of discrediting the U.S. presence by a major, one-shot victory. But that might well prove suicidal tor the Viet Cong have discovered that these days a mass assault all too easily turns into an avalanche of airborne bullets, napalm and bombs. Or they might simply fade away to lie low, Br'er Rabbit fashion, in the hope that sooner or later the U.S. would get weary...
...Solicitor General is often judged less by his Supreme Court victories than by his success in getting federal agencies to accept lower-court decisions. In 1964 Archibald Cox, Marshall's predecessor, who plans to resume teaching labor law at Harvard, held off 74% of the requests tor appeals from decisions against the Government in U.S. district courts Of 385 potential appeals to the Supreme Court, he approved only 43. Such selectivity pays off: the Supreme Court now accepts about 66% of the Government's petition compared with less than 10% of those of private lawyers...
...sophisticated have the production and marketing of processed meats become that most packers look to them tor their major profit growth. Processed meat, they say, can be produced more cheaply than the fresh variety and pack aged with a distinctive brand name to attract the eye of the housewife. "When we sell fresh meat," explains A.M I Economist Allen Johnson, "we often say we are just selling cordwood...