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Last week, at the age of 52,* Leo the Lion accepted his latest and biggest job without a tremor...
...George Washington. Their research, published last week in the clinic's Proceedings, shows that, in the course of his 67-year life, Washington suffered from: measles, diphtheria, smallpox, an "infectious disease of uncertain nature," dysentery, malaria, rheumatism, pneumonia, a carbuncle, influenza, conjunctivitis, recurrent headaches, bad eyesight, a tremor of the hands, decaying teeth...
Reporting that the Allies could expect no earthquake of sufficient intensity to disturb the Japanese war effort, L. Donald Leet, assistant professor of Seismology dismissed the tremor in the Sea of Japan two days ago as a "routine, almost sub-normal" quake, of which the Harvard seismographs got a clear record...
They flew over the chaotic tragedies of a landscape which from that height was as unpeopled as if it were in a museum case: "All that I see is the bric-a-brac of another age exhibited under a pure crystal without tremor." Saint-Exupéry, in his mind, revisited strange depths of his childhood; and meditated upon death, defeat, victory, treachery...
...time; others cannot sleep. Strangely enough, victims do not necessarily lose athletic skill. Said Dr. Neal: "I have seen patients bedridden by day who were able to walk and even dance during the night. . . . One patient could pitch a ball with speed and accuracy, whereas the spasticity [jerkiness] and tremor of his right arm interfered with his carrying out the more simple acts of everyday life...