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...pectoris, the recurrent pain that afflicts many victims of coronary artery disease. Mexico City's Dr. Teodoro Cesarman was most enthusiastic, reported complete relief after one to three weeks' treatment in 62 cases. One man, incapacitated for eight years, who had taken up to 20 tablets of nitroglycerin a day, lost his pain, began climbing stairs, and walked a mile without distress. U.S. and Swiss specialists reported good though less dramatic results...
...England. To arrange the trip it took three months and all of Jones's influence with highly placed Britons, plus an assist from U.S. Ambassador to France William C. Bullitt and possibly a word from Franklin Roosevelt and Mussolini as well. Freud's ailing heart, buoyed by nitroglycerin, stood the journey well, and he was received in London like a conqueror-as befitted a man who during the trip had dreamed that he was landing at Pevensey, where William the Conqueror landed in 1066. Later Freud was so delighted with his new home and garden that he told...
...stirred. Some infantry appeared and shot up the building, but the Freedom Fighters did not return the fire. Finally there were 20 tanks, some 75 infantrymen, a truck, and an armored car outside the barracks. "Colonel Maleter came and looked down," recalls Peter Szanto. "He picked up a small nitroglycerin bottle and threw it at the truck. The truck disappeared in one big roar. Then we all threw nitroglycerin bottles and benzine flashes and used machine pistols on the infantry. It was a fine trick. We killed the infantry, got the truck, the armored car, and four of the tanks...
Cocktails for Surgery. Improvements in treatment have kept pace. Amyl nitrite was formerly used liberally, and nitroglycerin only sparingly, as a last resort. Whisky was freely prescribed, and tobacco rigidly banned. Nowadays, Dr. Master notes, amyl nitrite is seldom given because it causes too general a dilation of the arteries. Nitroglycerin, on the other hand, is freely prescribed, not only after the onset of an attack but to head one off: "When activities known to precipitate an anginal attack are undertaken-coitus, walking uphill, walking after a meal, walking early in the morning, stepping out into the cold, or walking...
...Wages of Fear. Fear, oil, greed, Central America and nitroglycerin, stirred together in an angry philosophical shocker by French Director Henri-Georges Clouzot (TIME...