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...doctors come to err so often? Their commonest stumble was a "functional" (i.e., not organic) heart murmur, of a type which Dr. Goldwater describes as "transitory, innocent." Sometimes they were misled by high blood pressure. Other errors were more surprising: tuberculosis, cancer of the stomach and latent syphilis were all mistaken for heart trouble...
...overtake the Taft lead, Lodge's immediate job is to pull the latent Eisenhower support into the open. He needs declarations of support for Eisenhower-and he needs them before Ike is in a position to make a formal announcement of his candidacy...
...past years, CRIMSON business representatives have sold everything from the swivel-chair concession at University Hall to vast quantities of freshman radiators without batting an editorial eyelash. And now, there is a chance for freshmen, sophomore, and junior latent extroverts to develop under personal tutelage of the fastest talking gray flannels in Cambridge. The CRIMSON comp opening at 7-30 tonight offers everyone a gift for gab which can come in handy along other than journalistic lines...
...economic crisis was building in Egypt (in the past three weeks, the price of Egyptian cotton has plummeted). Amid such unrest, Nahas Pasha had unleashed the furies of nationalism and the always latent anti-British feeling. It was a desperate and dangerous move. If it failed, El Nahas Pasha's wobbly government might fall...
...chaplain, he switched to combat duty with the paratroopers. A bit later, while commanding a platoon in North Africa, he was taken prisoner. Until the end of the war, he ministered to fellow prisoners, mostly U.S. airmen, in a Luftwaffe camp. "The war," he said, "taught us the indescribable latent courage of the ordinary person...