Word: victimization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...until the early 1960s was this form found to be caused by an excess of the potent hormone aldosterone (TIME, March 15, 1963), produced by the adrenal glands, which bestride the kidneys. If either gland develops a tumor, it is likely to churn out aldosterone too generously. The victim of this "primary aldosteronism" has too little potassium in his system and usually too much sodium, an imbalance that leaves him prey to intermittent paralysis, uremia-and high blood pressure...
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...
...This relative safety comes partly from luck, the medics concede, and partly from the fact that the old-fashioned vaccine they are now using seems to confer some protection against El Tor. The most important reason, say the doctors, is that cholera, like smallpox, rarely takes hold unless its victim is debilitated...
...Davison's most startling thesis is that Mary, far from being a party to the gunpowder plot at Kirk o'Field, was really marked to be its victim. On the basis of meticulously constructed evidence, he charges that Darnley conspired with a faction of power-hungry lords to have the gunpowder planted in the residence, then touched it off himself, believing that Mary had returned to the house. Darnley fled to the garden, and there was strangled by his fellow conspirators...
...lost his job producing the Steve Allen Show, and was picking up relief checks when he cut My Son, the Folk Singer; he has been rolling in record royalties and showbiz success jobs ever since. In this garrulously ingratiating book, Sherman appears as a half-crass, half-crushed victim of his own success. "You've got to run very fast to stay where you are," he says, borrowing inspiration from Lewis Carroll. He insists that he hates...