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Only 30 years ago the diagnosis of angina pectoris "was tantamount to the issuance of a death warrant." Today the panic associated with it has gone, and after 30 more years medical science may have reduced it to the status of an interesting rarity. So says famed Cardiologist Arthur M. Master of Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital in the A.M.A. Journal. Angina pectoris (literally, suffocating pain in the chest) is caused by sclerosis of the coronary arteries in a clutching, chronic form-less dramatic than the violent seizure of the heart attack, when a coronary artery actually shuts down...
...such an atmosphere, the policeman's lot is an unhappy one. If he stops a recognized pint pitcher without cause and finds whisky, the case can be tossed out of court for lack of a search warrant. But if he goes after a warrant, the pint pitcher disappears. As fast as he raids and closes one package store, another opens. Police liquor details are inadequate; Tulsa attempts to stem a 30,000-case-per-month consumption with a three-man detail. As it was during national Prohibition, Oklahoma public opinion is more with the bootlegger than with the police...
...than ten graduate students involved in the two-year program in International Affairs at the Littauer Center. Continuing opposition to any real strengthening in the study of International Relations seems to be coming from men who believe that the area has not been sufficiently developed as a discipline to warrant separate treatment. Any broad approach to contemporary foreign problems can be little more than a close examination of "The New York Times in Retrospect," they theorize. This unreasonably academic argument, however, ignores the fundamental importance of objective conditions throughout the world in determining a coherent and workable American foreign policy...
...Dean of the College." He warned that action might been taken against those who fail to register their cars or who fail to provide off-street parking. "Presumably, offenders will be reported to the Administrative Board for such action as the circumstances in the individual case warrant," he said...
...looked forward to marriage any spring, but Angelo had laid down the law: Giuseppe at 18 was too old for his daughter. Knowing this, Antonina knew too that even so much as a peep through her window slats would be like a signature on her Giuseppe's death warrant...