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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...gentle art of diplomacy become such a grim business? Because "the survival of Totalitaria" depends primarily on "bad relations with Western democracies," wrote Lord Vansittart, for eight-years the head of Britain's diplomatic careerists, in the current Foreign Affairs. "There is a smell of the jungle about these dense growths of words which smother old conceptions like voluble creepers," he said. "Part of our species is being conducted by sedulous apes back to the treetops...
...physicians who have been skeptical about using PAS (para-aminosalicylic acid) to treat tuberculosis are being converted. Three doctors on the staff of the Arroyo Del Valle Sanatorium of Alameda County (Calif.) report in the current Stanford Medical Bulletin that 150 patients in the San Francisco Bay area have had PAS treatments with "very promising" results...
Another team of statistics-minded doctors went to work on the worst 1948 epidemic within a single county-San Diego. The city of San Diego, they point out in the current Stanford Medical Bulletin, "probably has better living conditions than any large city in the U.S." Nearby is the overcrowded, jerry-built, almost sewerless Mexican town of Tijuana. Every racial group in San Diego, including Mexican immigrants, showed about the same liability to polio (60 cases per 100,000 population). But Tijuana's rate was only one-seventh as great...
...when Kukla blew his nose on the curtain, 250 handkerchiefs arrived from fans within two days. Unable to answer more than a small fraction of the 8,000-odd letters that pour in each week, Tillstrom mails out a chatty newspaper, the Kuklapolitan Courier, some five times a year (current circulation...