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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Unknown to all but a very few, Emilie Dionne had been sick almost from the beginning with epilepsy, a disease rarely cured. Periodically, she was stricken with seizures. Last month a policeman found her wandering, apparently lost, on a street in Montreal. One day last week, when she was visiting at a convent near Ste. Agathe, Que. to decide whether she also might choose the life of a nun, Emilie was stricken again. She suffered three successive fits. No doctor was called, but next morning she stayed in her room to rest. A short while later, a nurse found Emilie...
Coke Boxes & Shopping Bags. Wherever he went last week the wrinkled, spry old man added his own unorthodox touches to the most routine ceremonials. After laying the customary wreaths at the tombs of George Washington and the Unknown Soldier, Rhee signaled to a State Department aide who trotted behind him carrying a shopping bag. At each stop the aide solemnly opened the shopping bag and removed a red maple sapling from the old palace garden in Seoul, and Rhee solemnly planted it. At Mount Vernon Syngman Rhee paused to acknowledge the cheers of a crowd of tourists, and a small...
...into action. Their quarry: the carrier who must have transmitted the typhoid. Five investigators and two nurses got in touch with all wedding guests they could trace, had them checked for infection. But many people at the party had just drifted in for the fun, and their names were unknown. As the investigators rang doorbells, three more guests came down with typhoid...
...Genoa. In 1893 the painting bore a label boldly attributing it to Rubens. Later, when critics questioned the label, the museum withdrew the painting from view. In 1910 it went on exhibit again, cautiously identified as a "school of Rubens" work. In 1920 the authorities relabeled the painting "Unknown. From school of Rubens?" By 1928 they had lost all confidence, reattributing the canvas to an "unknown Genoese of the 18th century." Back it went to the storeroom. Recently, the experts took counsel all over again and decided to have it cleaned. Revealed in the cleaning process: the date...
Instead. Jefferson agreed with research which suggests that there exists a waking center within some nerve cells in the brain stem and basal ganglia called "retic-ular formations." Sleep comes when this waking center is deactivated, probably by enzymes. But how this happens is unknown...