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...screened by three ham-handed Arab thugs. The empire was briery threatened last spring when a Corsican hood named Michel Defendin loudly announced his intention of "conquering the Place Pigalle." This threat evaporated last month when Defendin was found lying on the Place Pigalle with three bullets in his chest...
Back from Laos to a Manhattan hos pital came Jungle Physician Thomas Dooley, 33, with an apparent recurrence in his spine of the cancer that had originally attacked him in the chest...
...crystallized with insights, landscapes, literature, and animals that seem as if painted by Henri Rousseau. Who else, one wonders, would have attained a great reputation as a healer merely by holding a Barua a Soldani, a letter from a king (Denmark's Christian X), to the chest of a young native writhing in agony from a badly fractured leg? As the letter became a relic, stiff with blood and grime, and passed from hand to hand in a cabalistic pouch, it also became "a covenant signed between the Europeans and the Africans -no similar document of this same relationship...
...nagging chest pains of angina pectoris are a common symptom of coronary artery disease and may serve as early warning of an impending heart attack. They usually mean that the heart muscle, because of exertion or excitement, is demanding more blood than the disease-narrowed coronary arteries can supply. But angina can also come to the most relaxed and unexcited person. Last week, in the A.M.A. Journal, Los Angeles' Dr. Myron Prinzmetal reported that he and five colleagues have identified 23 cases of a strange angina that holds off while its victims shovel snow from their driveways or play...
...last from 45 seconds to more than 20 minutes, and often occur in remarkably regular cycles, perhaps at the same time each day. The condition is extremely difficult to diagnose. A physical examination reveals no abnormalities. An exercise tolerance test causes no pain. Results of laboratory tests are normal. Chest X rays and routine electrocardiograms give no indication of the disorder. Eventually, says Dr. Prinzmetal, "on repeated visits the suspicion grows that the patient's symptoms are of psychoneurotic origin." But since emotional distress does not provoke the viselike pains, tranquilizers and sedatives do not relieve them. Bewildered...