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...movie The Fortune Cookie, the ambulance-chasing lawyer says that his crumpled client can be cured because doctors keep abreast of sophisticated new treatment techniques by reading TIME. The heroine of Lois Gould's recent novel Such Good Friends observes that the procedures being tried on her stricken husband will make the Medicine section if they work. In Pierre Salinger's present bestselling On Instructions of My Government, a Mafia type reads TIME'S Latin American edition and discovers that he may be the quarry of an FBI manhunt...
...turned out, Sato learned of Nixon's announcement just three minutes before it was broadcast. In part, that was due to delays in transmitting and decoding messages. Whatever the explanation, Sato was stricken. To reporters, Sato wondered how "Nixon could do a thing like this." Sato realized that Washington had been cautious for fear of a leak, but for the Japanese Premier that was scant consolation...
...that originated in South America, swept up into Texas, and parts of Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas, killing at least 1,500 horses, burros and mules and afflicting hundreds of humans with severe, flu-like symptoms. Ranchers call the disease "blind staggers," describing the head-down, stumbling gait of a stricken animal. A plague of gypsy moths defoliated numerous forests in the East (TIME, July 26). For the second consecutive year, the Southern corn-leaf blight was rotting crops in all of the Midwest's corn-producing states...
...there was no one to take away the dead. They just lay around on the ground or in the water." High-pressure syringes have speeded vaccination and reduced the cholera threat, but camp health officials have already counted about 5,000 dead, and an estimated 35,000 have been stricken by the convulsive vomiting and diarrhea that accompany the disease. Now officials fear that pneumonia, diphtheria and tuberculosis will also begin to exact a toll among the weakened ref ugees. Says one doctor: "The people are not even crying any more...
...difficult to walk. His legs were not used to it, and he was stricken by shortness of breath. His asthmatic breathing was heavy with the effort of this simple, unencumbered movement. The real test for the body comes when you lose authority over others, when your means of transport and protection are gone, when your general's epaulets, which once expressed the essence of your being, have been cast away, and your heart cannot keep pace. Your lungs can no longer take a full breath, as though they were more than half blocked. Your legs are unsteady. Your pace falters...