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...again. Worn by the pace and by the sudden change in climate and elevation from 1½-milehigh Mexico City, Tito returned to the Allen-Byrd House feeling ill, had nothing but two bowls of consommé for dinner. His personal physicians discovered that he was running a slight fever (100.2°), diagnosed it as a mild case of influenza. His scheduled trip to Yosemite National Park and San Fran cisco was canceled, which probably came as a relief to Administration officials who were worried about demonstrations. Disneyland was not on Tito's itinerary to begin with...
...bottle of port, my father said to me: 'You know, the most important thing in life is to know when to stop.' " At the height of the leadership auction at the Tory conference in Blackpool this month, a reporter goaded Home: "Aren't you catching the fever?" Replied the Foreign Secretary: "Put your hand on my forehead, and feel my pulse. You will find that both are quite normal...
Meanwhile, war fever gripped Algeria. At his demagogic best, Ben Bella proclaimed total mobilization to fight the imaginary "collusion" between the Kabylia rebels and the "feudal monarchy" of Morocco. "Hassan to the gallows," yelled the crowd of 100,000. Thousands of jobless, hungry Algerians happily joined the army, partly to get a free meal ticket. Ben Bella showed up in the National Assembly in a brand-new battle jacket, urged the Deputies to "give up your neckties and cuff links" and sign up too. Most did, and the Assembly was dissolved until further notice...
Pigeons carry the infectious agents of a dozen diseases. They may reward the owner of the hand that feeds them with a dose of ornithosis (better known as psittacosis or parrot fever). In New York and probably in most U.S. cities, pigeons are also the principal carriers of the fungus Cryptococcus neoformans, or CN. The fungus does not seem to make the birds sick, perhaps because their blood heat is too high, but they drop it all over the place in their excreta...
...describe a baby who was born with herpetic ulcers on his skin and kept getting them for months; he is now handicapped by cerebral palsy. By diligent virus detective work, the doctors concluded that the mother had picked up the infection from her husband, who had a herpes simplex fever blister on his lip when he kissed her ten days before the baby was born. The virus must have reached the baby through the mother's bloodstream and the placenta...