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Paris has Pharaonic fever-all because of 45 objects from the tomb of Egypt's boy king, Tutankhamen (circa 1358 B.C.), which recently began a four-month stay at the Petit Palais. The event is hardly news: King Tut's tomb was discovered in 1922. But ever since the exhibition opened, Parisians waiting to get in have jammed the Avenue Churchill with serpentine lines five bodies thick...
...antidote to what he regarded as an outbreak of peace fever, the President prescribed a dose of Dean Rusk pragmatism. During a press conference, Rusk restated the U.S. position that "you can't stop this war simply by stopping a half of it." It was not a crowd-pleasing role for Rusk: some newsmen had arrived hoping for news of an important move toward peace. But the Secretary carried it off with characteristic calm and clarity...
Championship Fever...
...such mystery illness has now been isolated and identified by the Army Surgeon General's office. Known as melioidosis, it was first discovered in Southeast Asia in 1911, but it is practically brand-new to Americans. Though some of its symptoms (cough, fever, weight loss, chest pain and spotting on lung X rays) are similar to those of tuberculosis, it is an entirely unrelated illness. Caused by bacteria of the Pseudomonas family, which grow easily in the moist soil of Southeast Asia, melioidosis develops after invasion of the system through open wounds, the mouth or the nose. One helicopter...
...vicious falciparum type of malaria parasite is responsible for virtually all the malaria that strikes U.S. troops, despite their "Sunday pill" of chloroquine and pyrimethamine. These parasites even overcome the protective effect of a potent third antimalarial, dia-phenylsulfone (DOS), given to troops in the highlands. Falciparum's fever may be fatal if it attacks the brain. Last winter U.S. medics were saving nearly all their patients by intensive treatment with chloroquine and quinine, but 40% of the men suffered relapses...