Word: newborn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flexible language or maintain, as he does much of the time, its purity and its dimensions." Newsweek concluded its account of opening night by reporting that "the box-office lines stretched around the corner the next day, assuring the author that the audiences were eager to see the newborn classic. Summing Up: One you shouldn't miss...
...Baghdad itself, daily bulletins continued to insist that Kassem was recovering nicely from his wounds, would soon leave the hospital. On that happy day, Iraqi citizens were promised free admission to movie theaters, half fare on trains, and free circumcision for their newborn sons. But like any other Arab strongman, Kassem derives his power less from the people than from the army. At week's end, from his hospital bed, "the sole leader'' made a public declaration of confidence in the loyalty of his troops: "I can assure you there is not in the whole...
...international syndicate of about 30 viruses in two groups. Some cause Iceland's pleurodynia, or "devil's grip," and Bornholm disease (named for the Danish island in the Baltic where it was first reported). Others cause a rapidly fatal inflammation of the heart muscle in the newborn. One sets off a severe sore throat unaptly named herpangina. Several behave like polio's little brothers. And, said Dr. Dalldorf, now with Sloan-Kettering Institute after a stint with the National Foundation, many reported cases of paralytic polio after Salk vaccinations are probably not polio at all, but Coxsackie...
...skittish as a newborn calf, Wall Street's bull market last week stumbled hard. Stocks dropped 14.82 points on the Dow-Jones industrial average to 637.36, well down from the peak of 678.10 in early August. Brokers all gave the same reasons for the market's weakness: tight money, the steel strike and Premier Khrushchev's visit. Many of them also agreed on what the market will do next. Said Carl M. Loeb, Rhoades Partner Samuel L. Stedman: "I expect a good strong rally before the end of the year, because there is money piling...
...height of the late Serge Voronoff's vogue as a transplanter of monkey testicles.) In 1931 Dr. Niehans had a woman patient whom he rated too ill for a gland transplant. He gave her instead an injection of cells from the ground-up parathyroids of a newborn lamb. Last week, a sprightly 75, she wrote Dr. Niehans from Bern to say that she "never felt better...