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...during his recent domestic forays, across the land. Former Army Secretary Howard Callaway-who is now Gerald Ford's campaign manager-declaimed that: "There's a feeling in this country that Teddy Roosevelt helped the Panamanians get their independence, negotiated the treaty, paid for it, conquered yellow fever and brought them their sole economic enterprise. There's the feeling that the canal is enormously valuable, that we paid for it, and it's ours." More than one-third of the Senate-enough to block ratification of a new treaty -also opposes any change...
Therein lies the flaw in virtually all biographies of entertainers. Performance is a mysterious process, often beyond the comprehension of performer-and critic. That mystery is worth dissection; everything else is a banal fever chart of catcalls and triumphs...
...Hamsters seem to be popular as classroom and household pets. But the animals may also be a source of a serious flu-like illness called lymphocytic choriomeningitis (LCM), which causes fever, headaches, severe muscle aches and pains and occasionally nausea and vomiting. That is the conclusion of a team of researchers from the New York State Health Department and the U.S. Public Health Service's Center for Disease Control in Atlanta. The researchers report in the A.M. A. Journal that 57 cases of LCM occurred in upstate New York during one four-month period last year. Though several...
...presence on stage is as disturbing to us as it is to his family, though our distance keeps our horror, unlike theirs, from turning into hatred. Beckhard is not always at home with Rabe's more poetic passages; but his performance is riveting when he rises to a fever pitch of outrage, denouncing the cruelty he sees and hating himself for listening to voices not his own, or when he subsides into a hurt, despairing sarcasm that admits the futility of his denunciations...
...aspirin to fight the fever, scratchy throat, headache and general malaise of the common cold is being reappraised as a result of a study conducted at Chicago's University of Illinois Medical Center. Doctors at the school dosed 45 healthy young volunteers with nose drops containing common cold viruses, then treated 25 of the patients with aspirin while the other 20 were given a placebo...