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...third drug for dropping the blood pressure, mecamylamine (trade name: Inversine), sometimes causes severe anxiety or depression and is suspected of having triggered disabling mental illnesses. Other patients have developed chorea (muscular twitching), with tremor, slurred speech, and difficulty in controlling the joints; in some cases the symptoms have resembled multiple sclerosis; in others there have been severe epileptoid seizures...
...their late 403 left Iowa City's University Hospital last week and boarded planes to carry them to their homes in the South. Each walked with a fast, short-stepped gait ("festination") and had a marked tremor on his left side. These were symptoms of advanced Parkinsonism, a disorder (cause unknown) of nerve nuclei at the base of the brain. But each man had just been freed of such symptoms on the right side. For the first time, after more than five years of helplessness, each could write legibly and feed himself an in-flight meal. This improvement...
...salt pan was removed and the bone flap replaced. (It would grow back solidly into the skull in three or four weeks.) By the time the patient was wheeled back to his room, the uncontrollable tremor, the involuntary bending of the arm and turning in of the thumb on the right side had disappeared. In a few months, both patients will return to Iowa City for treatment of the ansa lenticularis on the right, to halt the Parkinsonian movements of their left sides...
Election & Ejection. As he faced the Assembly to ask for investiture last week, the emotional impact of the occasion imparted a tremor to Gaillard's normally resonant voice. Then he steadied and briskly outlined his program. Main points: special powers for pursuing the war in Algeria (including a new appeal to the rebels for a ceasefire, a new discussion of the loi cadre), a 100 billion-franc slash in government expenditures, new taxes and price controls...
...final score on the Battle of the Budget was still beyond calculation. It remained to be seen, for example, how much or little of Congress' cuts would in fact have to be made up with deficiency appropriations. In 1960, say, after the last tremor of the 1957 budget battle has died away, a university professor may wangle a Ford Foundation grant to figure out the score. If, with the help of half a dozen accountants and an electronic brain, he comes up with a fair and accurate estimate, it will be a lot smaller than Harry Byrd...