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Other TIME subscribers are fighting yellow fever in Uganda, mining tin in Bolivia, teaching inside China. One is a customs inspector at Dar-es-Salaam; another is the President of Finland...
...roof of a boxcar that night. It was raining. Refugees were so thick you couldn't move. You know, one of those woman refugees, she had a baby that night, right there on top of the car. About an hour after it was born she had a fever of 101 degrees, the baby had 103. There was a Chinese Red Cross man with us. So we broke open my army first-aid kit and I took out my sulfanilamide. The Red Cross man broke one of the tablets into six little pieces and fed them to the baby...
...contraceptives, only one intercourse in 202 resulted in pregnancy. Infertility is by no means an exclusive matter of stopped-up tubes, venereal disease, or poor sexual development. Some other causes: diet low in vitamins or protein, poor absorption of food, too much alcohol, too little sleep, "nervousness," infections, recent fever, thyroid and pituitary disorders, wrong kinds of vaginal douches...
...Reason. Mitchell Paige, no cinema gyrene, was a quietly savvy guy. He neither smoked, drank, nor swore (his most rugged expletive was saved for the Japs: "damned slopeheads"). In Samoa he nursed a child through fever, was appointed by the natives as "Talking Chief"-tribal adviser...
...Rocky Mountain area, where ticks have been carrying the fever since Indian days, people are not jittery about it. They know that only one tick in 300 is infected, that he must bite and burrow for several hours in order to transmit the infection. But in the East, where the fever has been recognized for only a dozen years, many people are afraid to walk in the woods. Recent trouble spots: 1) the District of Columbia, where three people, all bitten outside the District, have died of the disease; 2) Philadelphia, with five cases, one of whom caught the fever...