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Dermatologists at Kaiser Foundation Hospital discovered that both mother and son had been infected with a microbe that is close kin to the bacillus of tuberculosis. Theirs were the first reported cases, say Dr. Sheldon Swift and Harold Cohen in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which a fish tank served as the incubator. The germ, undiscovered until the early 1950s, had previously been found nourishing only in swimming pools. There it has caused several outbreaks of what has usually been called simply sore elbow...
...have been a life-saving transfusion is obscured by months of wrangling with the hospital over payment, at as much as $60 a pint, or replacement, at a rate up to three pints for one. Through the new center, any member of a blood credit program or his kin can wipe out a blood debt on a straight pint-for-pint basis. For those who have to pay, the top price is estimated...
...campaign at all, was beaten by Minor Martin, a former University of California football player. Texas Democrat J. T. ("Slick") Rutherford had accepted a $1.500 "campaign contribution" from Billie Sol Estes; he was done in by Republican Ed Foreman. Washington's five-term Democrat Don Magnuson (no kin to Senator Warren Magnuson ) had been hurt by drinking, driving and marital problems. He was defeated by the G.O.P.'s Bill Stinson, 32, a salesman seeking office for the first time. A federal indictment for trying to influence a mail fraud case was too great a handicap for Maryland...
...ungallantly watching as "dum rockit rackit." When a western comes on, she screams "Whiteman shootin . . . mothahless madass boom boomin crap." Then, jaybird naked, she picks up the offending set bodily and tries to toss it out the narrow window. She fails. "Yeah! Gee-zuz! Ain nothin else I kin do t'kill that bastid, sep grab him by his lectrick line and pull...
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