Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In London's medical journal Lancet, Professors Michele Pavone-Macaluso and Antonino Anello described the case. Last winter a 34-year-old housewife bent on suicide swallowed bichloride of mercury. After eleven days, her system still could not flush out the poison. So with tubes from a vein and...
This "dialytic parabiosis" lasted 90 minutes, was credited with helping to save the woman's life. (The sheep also recovered after a brief feverish illness.) Last week Dr. Pavone-Macaluso said that he wanted to try the technique again, but with a bigger donor animal-and hence a larger...
Stranger in Paradise. Near Springfield, Ore., after the main building of the Willamettans nudist colony burned to the ground, its only winter resident, Caretaker A. B. Stevens, breathlessly reported that he had fled the flames with only a few personal belongings and "the clothes on my back."
Devil's Disciple. In Fresno, Calif., the Fresno Bee, intending to tell of "correction," reported that Fred Engle had been named the state's "deputy staff director of corruption," finished off with: "Like his brother, he is a Democrat."
Resemblance of Things Past. In Tokyo, after beating four women with a cudgel, Plasterer Shigeo Yokoyama, 30, explained that all of them resembled his wife, with whom he had feuded earlier.