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...standing room crowd of 8,016 in War Memorial Auditorium saw Baylor, bedded with a fever earlier in the day, launch a furious early assault that buried the East with a steady succession of fast breaks resulting in easy baskets for the West. The West 153 points topped the previous mark of 130 set by the East...
...first time since the revolt against Rhee, Seoul's police were issued tear gas and guns with blank cartridges, and told to use them. Wading in, the cops hauled 200 ringleaders off to jail. Later, when younger students at Kangmoon High School, infected with the same fever of violence, locked their principal in his office until he signed a resignation statement, police showed the same resolution, jailed 65 young ruffians...
...political savvy and a quick sense of humor, Herbert Claiborne Pell, retired states-man and party manager, is a master at the aside--in a stage whisper. To sit next to him is the only way to catch the whole show. His asides presented a description of the political fever that is apparently catching in the Pell family...
...infectious variety takes two to six weeks to develop. Common symptoms: jaundice, headache, fever (up to 104°), nausea, loss of appetite, diarrhea, enlarged liver, mental depression. Unlike any other contagious disease, hepatitis is harder on women than men. Only about three in every 1,000 hepatitis victims die from the disease, but even mild attacks are thought to precipitate progressive liver disease and cirrhosis. Many patients recover after seven or eight weeks, but others are still sick at the end of a year or more, and relapses are fairly common. Some patients become unwitting carriers of the serum type...
About half of U.S. college students believe that whisky will "kill" a fever, and one-third think that an expectant mother can cultivate musical talent in her unborn child by listening to symphonies. One student in three believes that chiropractors are just as competent as physicians, and a smaller group thinks that fish is a "brain food." So says New York University's Dr. H. Frederick Kilander, author of the standard Kilander Health Knowledge Tests, who has been charting the progress of general health education in the U.S. since...