Word: visione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Monnet's vision was of a Europe in which nations would progressively sacrifice chunks of their sovereignty for the common good. Pierre Mendès-France, France's new man of the hour, has substituted a tougher, harder-bargaining diplomacy in which nations make accommodations and pacts with one another, but jealously cling to their sovereign authority. In this he has the powerful support of the British Foreign Office, which instinctively prefers the more pragmatic, national approach. At the London Conference, the new pragmatism paid off triumphantly in the seven-nation Western European Union...
Trachoma is regarded as one of the world's most destructive diseases because of its wide prevalence. The virus disease does not kill, but it frequently impairs vision. In nations where it is common--a large part of the world outside the United States--many persons carry the disease all their lives. In some of the areas of the Middle East 80 to 100 percent of the inhabitants have it at some time during their lifetime...
Doctors have learned to make no rash claims about treatments for multiple sclerosis. This baffling disease of unknown origin afflicts an estimated 250,000 in the U.S. with varying degrees of incapacity, usually in the legs and arms, often involving speech and vision. Damaging the nerve sheaths in the brain and spinal column, multiple sclerosis may take many forms, from a quickly fatal attack to a 30-year lingering illness punctuated by long periods of relative freedom. Histamine, vitamins and a variety of drugs have aroused high hopes in some researchers and their patients, only to prove disappointing...
...More Treatment? An immense amount of research must be done to find out what changes in the human body make it prone to infection-and, probably, more years of work to find out how to prevent or reverse these changes. But Dr. Dubos permitted himself a vision of the future: a world in which antibiotics and elaborate medical treatment will not be needed, because the power to resist infectious disease will be built into, and maintained in, man himself...
There are songs by Irving Berlin, some of them undoubtedly familiar ("White Christmas" is sung twice, one time with Crosby and Kaye dressed as Santa Clauses) and others which merely sound familiar. Vista-Vision, like similar optical trickery, means only that less movie is spread thinner across more screen...