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...subcommittee for permitting "irresponsible" testimony in public. He demanded the right to answer in a public hearing. California Democrat Cecil King, subcommittee chairman, promptly scheduled an Oliphant appearance. But when the time came, Oliphant didn't show up. He was ill, said his attorney, seemed almost "suffering from shock." Mr. Grunewald couldn't appear, either. His physician said he was in the hospital suffering from "severe emotional strain" and gastrointestinal disturbances...
Candidates who had planned to carry their fight to the people next year over the nation's 3,165 radio & TV stations may be in for a shock. The Federal Communications Commission last week handed down a ruling that could set political campaigning back to the pre-radio...
...nation reacted with shock, outrage and bewilderment. The Pentagon was deluged with telegrams from agonized relatives. President Truman said that the report disclosed the most uncivilized thing that has happened in the last century-if it was true. The cease-fire talks had reached a critical stage, and the U.S. negotiators were beginning to come under some criticism for apparent stalling after the Communists had made major concessions. Critics and Communists promptly seized on the atrocity report as another attempt to delay negotiations...
Sometimes as many as ten men in a unit fell ill at once; sometimes only one man in a pup tent. The first symptoms are like grippe: headache, fever, aching joints and fatigue. The fever may shoot to 106°, the pulse weakens, and blood pressure falls as in shock. In the acute stage, tiny hemorrhages in the eyeballs make them bloodshot; other hemorrhages appear under the skin of shoulders and belly, and there may be bleeding from the nose, kidneys or intestines...
...drugs alter the course of the disease. But U.S. troops get far better care than the first Japanese victims: infusions of glucose and vitamins, and sometimes ACTH or cortisone for shock. Transfusions of blood from convalescent patients, given to victims in the early stages, seem to speed their recovery. This strengthens the belief that the fever is caused by a virus, and that a convalescent's blood contains antibodies manufactured during the illness...