Word: vulgarising
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> Reston's emergency operation for appendicitis* at Peking's Anti-Imperialist Hospital went smoothly, but 36 hours later he was "in considerable discomfort if not pain" from gas pressure distending his stomach and intestines. With the patient's approval, the hospital's acupuncture specialist inserted three...
Still, despite its G-rated upbeatness, Darling Lili leaves an ineradicable aura of melancholia. A major talent is still settling for that vanilla species, the common, overproduced, unclerinspired feature (Cinema vulgaris). ∙Stefan Kanfer
Transfer of drug resistance was first detected in Japan. Confirmed in Israel and Europe, it has now appeared in the U.S. At Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, 35% of Shigella strains have proved resistant to sulfadiazine and 21% to tetracycline; at Children's Hospital Medical...
In Britain's authoritative Lancet, acne gets the full treatment from a top Harley Street skin specialist, Robert M. B. MacKenna. Balancing himself between the do-nothing and try-everything schools, Dermatologist MacKenna takes the view that "acne vulgaris is a normal accompaniment of adolescence and is an abnormality...
¶ In Mount Vernon, N.Y., a squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) scampered across high-tension wires, caused a short circuit that broke a wire which fell on oil-soaked ties, starting a fire that held up traffic on the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad for an hour.