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...disgusted with those chest-thumping, flag-waving Americans, TIME included, who reacted to the Cuban "victory" as if it were a baseball pennant. Bravery is not an absence of fear but the ability to do what must be done even when afraid. TIME quoted David Heffernan as being able to hold his head up because of the blockade. It was necessary to blockade Cuba, but there is a difference between being right and being righteous. Would Heffernan hold his head up even higher if, come war, we could kill 100 million Russians at a loss of only 50 million Americans...
...chest X ray indicated recent changes in the lungs-but again, nothing definite. This and other hints suggested that the anemia might be complicated by a tuberculous infection. So the doctors at once prescribed vigorous treatment with the most potent combination of anti-tuberculosis drugs: streptomycin, PAS (para-aminosalycylic acid) and isoniazid...
...home, Suzanne mixed the barbiturates with the honey-sweetened formula. The week-old baby died. The police, tipped off by Mme. Van de Put's suspicious pediatrician, found not only the dead baby but the cause of its deformities: thalidomide in the Van de Puts' medicine chest...
...Historian David Potter after 19 years at Yale, German Historian Gordon Craig after 20 years at Princeton, Novelist-Critic Albert J. Guerard after 23 years at Harvard. When the faculty got so good that he had to combat counter-raiders, Sterling set up "The Fighting Fund," an emergency war chest for matching bids of other universities for Stanford professors. Says Sterling: "We used to offer salubrious climate and living conditions. Now we meet the competition with dollars and throw in the sunshine...
...hematocrit - an instrument that measures the concentration of red cells in a centrifuged blood sample. The normal range is 40% to 50%. Most of their heart-disease patients had readings of up to 56%. Patient after patient obtained relief from repeated angina attacks, which cause fierce pain in the chest and left arm, along with an alarming feeling of suffocation. After the doctors bled them, removing about one-third of a pint of blood, the hematocrit level dropped into the normal range...