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...German measles (rubella) can come and go unseen during a night's sleep. In fact, the disease is generally so mild that a nationwide epidemic of it three years ago caused no panic. An estimated 30,000 pregnant women were among those infected, however, and rubella can wreak tragic damage in unborn children. For one of every two rubella babies, that damage includes at least a partial loss of hearing. "The deafness we are seeing now-the aftermath of the epidemic-is more severe than anyone anticipated," says Dr. Fred Linthicum Jr. of the children's division...
GUMMIDGE: Perfect. See how complicated you can make things? Imagine what damage you can wreak in the schools where a situation is no longer practical, it is viable; where a pupil is no longer unmanageable, but alienated...
...foresee. The NIMH has granted limited amounts of LSD to clinics and research institutes for experimental use in treating such disorders as alcoholism. The new state laws likewise provide for supervised research. But their supporters are convinced that, because of the brain damage and violence that LSD can wreak, society must try to police itself against the drug's unrestrained use. Many psychiatrists agree. Among the examples they cite: an average of twelve LSD "bad trip" victims a month land, out of their minds, in New York's Bellevue Hospital; two LSD-using youths were discovered in Hollywood...
...four possible routes prominently mentioned, all will wreak havoc. Two variations down Brookline and Elm Streets near Central Square will up-root between 3000 and 5000 families and claim several thousand jobs. One alignment further East, down Portland and Albany Streets on the fringe of M.I.T.'s campus, will take from 2300 to 5000 jobs (depending on whose figures you believe). And a third possible route, using the right-of-way along railroad tracks running through part of M.I.T.'s campus, will take a significant number of laboratories as well as claiming more than a thousand jobs and several hundred...
...reminded the steelworkers that their hourly wages ($4.40, including benefits) were already one-third higher than the average for industrial workers; they hardly needed a massive, inflationary raise. Then, in stern-fatherly fashion, he urged both sides to weigh the grave damage a strike could wreak on the U.S. economy, on the war in Viet Nam. To underline his point, he noted that the record 116-day steel strike in 1959 had plunged the nation straight into a nine-month recession...