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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pope is definitely a pastoral type," as opposed to the more politically interested Pius XII, stated Christopher C. Dawson, Charles Chauncey Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies. "A new Pope is not like a new political party brought into power, however," observed Fr. Rafael Porras, Advisor to Catholic Students in the University...
...Other victims of high blood pressure, under treatment with hexamethonium, may have "a dramatic type of respiratory disturbance," with breathing difficulties, fever, cough and chest pain, and turn blue. This, though rare, can be fatal within a month...
...Cortisone-type hormones stimulate peptic ulcers-despite combinations with antacids-sometimes to the point of perforation. Some patients experience extreme mood changes like the manic and depressive phases of manic-depressive psychosis. Especially in children, the hormones can touch off grand mal epilepsy; in oldsters, they may weaken the bones to the point of spontaneous fracture...
...Worst of all, Dr. Rising warns, a doctor treating a woman during pregnancy with anesthetics, X rays, ACTH or cortisone-type hormones, may subject the fetus to oxygen shortage or some other threat. The result: "Physicians now face the horrible possibility that they, in addition to certain 'acts of God,' are responsible for many developmental defects." He lists babies born with one eye, abnormal hearts, cleft palate or mongolism, and Siamese twins...
...military family, who seems to think of heaven as the last outpost of Empire, a mouse and lion husband-and-wife team, a saintly Good-Humored girl, frozen on the outside, soft on the inside. Finally there is the colony's leader, Michael Meade, a tense scoutmaster type who flounders in the hell of his homosexual impulses...