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...record (formerly $4.98). Sales were brisk, so London reissued ten operas, including Renata Tebaldi in La Boheme and Madama Butterfly. Mercury followed London's lead, establishing its Wing label, featuring such surefire favorites as suites from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker and Swan Lake ($1.98 for mono, $2.98 for stereo), ably rendered by Antal Dorati and the Minneapolis Symphony...
Fascinating Mono. In these three cases, it is easy enough to understand how the body can regard the escaping antigen-protein as "new" or "foreign," because it has been sequestered for years, perhaps since the fetal stage. Far more knotty are the questions that arise so often in Dr. Dameshek's practice as a hematologist. No less than 50% of all blood-destroying anemias acquired after infancy, he believes, are the results of autoimmune reactions. He is so confident of this that he abbreviates the disorders to AIHA-autoimmune hemolytic anemias...
...built a research bridge from the leukemias, or "blood cancers," to infectious mononucleosis, which he calls a "fascinating disease." It is, he says, at one and the same time an infection (presumably caused by a virus), a complex immune reaction, and an atypical, self-limiting form of leukemia. In "mono," several abnormal types of antibody are found at the times when the patient's lymph glands are overactive. Where the "not-self" or foreign proteins come from to start this process is not certain, but the likeliest source is the original virus, acting on lymph cells. And Dr. Dameshek...
That evening he appeared at the second annual awards dinner of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation for the men tally retarded. Following a droll mono logue by Jack Benny and the whispery voice of Nat King Cole, Johnson spoke softly and solemnly about his prede cessor. "We shall finish his fight," he said, "and we shall conquer mental retardation and mental illness and poverty and every other foe of the land that he loved, and every foe of the people he served...
...symbols of grace and beauty; so the Japanese government has requested her presence in Tokyo and Kyoto next summer. For Venus de Milo, such a visit would be unprecedented, and it required a d'accord from De Gaulle himself. But everything is set, and following the tradition of Mono. Lisa, she will go on a carefully packed ocean voyage. All this gallivanting-around by Louvre ladies has at least one young Frenchman upset: "If we want to convince the world of the beauty of our women, why do we have to do it with the smile of an Italian...