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...town. Army medics point out that the southern U.S., swarming with Aêdes aegypti and unvaccinated people, would be a prime target for bacteriological warfare with yellow-fever virus. But so far the U.S. is the only country in the Americas that is doing nothing to get rid of its aegypti...
...habitual users. Two Washington, B.C. researchers polled colleagues, reported in Postgraduate Medicine: 1) most uses of barbiturates are necessary or at least legitimate; 2) unjustified prescriptions (tor routine sedation or mild insomnia) do not occur often enough to justify new control legislation; 3) most doctors are eager to get rid of barbiturates, "are waiting only for the advancement of medical knowledge and the growth of psychiatric facilities" to cut down...
Somehow, practically the entire plot of Put Them All Together involves the efforts of a precious 29-year-old fop to rid himself of his mother's apron strings by sharing his bed with her attractive nurse. To varying degrees, the rest of his family approves of his venture, and forms a cheering section outside his bedroom door. Overnight a remarkable change takes place: by dawn the young man has shed his drab finales and pale timidity for a West Coast sport coat and a jut-jawed aggressiveness. This action is marked by an exchange of witticisms which in places...
Other Laborites were disgusted by the demands for Churchill's head. If the Socialists want to get rid of Churchill, said Labor Peer Viscount Stansgate, "I think it's time some cleaner way was found...
Next day Bowles stormed into her office and threatened to get even with her "if I have to stay in [this] county two years." Meanwhile, an unidentified man called on the Platts' landlady, told her she had better get rid of them or "the house might burn down." Race Relations Expert Willis McCall was not impressed by the Platts' ancestry. Said he at an N.A.A.W.P. rally: "There must have been a smoked Irishman in the woodpile...