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Another specially striking polio pattern was suggested by Dr. James Fleece Rinehart, of the University of California Hospital. Looking for clues to human resistance to the disease, he found that polio victims had a subnormal amount of salt in their blood. Previous studies have pointed out that the disease seems to attack particularly healthy youngsters after strenuous summer athletics-when they would presumably have sweated out a lot of salt. His tentative conclusion: if you haven't enough salt in your system, you may be an easier victim of polio...
Until last week Plouvien was just another of the quaint, peaceful villages that dot the Breton peninsula-a set pattern of small tidy houses, large untidy barns and barnyards, a few shops, a church at the crossroads. Even their names-Plouescat, Plougonven, Ploudaniel-bear the patina of time: plou is the ancient Celtic prefix for "parish...
From then on, the pattern was so consistent that even the beleagured Jap commanding the Second Army should have been able to figure it out: Wakde Island-on May 17; Biak on May 27; Noemfoor on July 2. But the Jap apparently persisted in the conviction that MacArthur's next move would be against Second Army headquarters at Manokwari...
...first to break from the tight, rigid pattern set by the Germans in Poland and the first French campaign. With his U.S. opposite numbers he had widened and deepened the art of making openings for the infantry and supporting troops until it also insured them against any substantial interference from enemy air operation...
What had Londoners on edge was that the Things fell in no pattern at all. They were unpredictable; the Briton has never cared for that characteristic in anything...