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...similar symptoms in elderly people were simply regarded as a natural consequence of aging. Today this view has been discarded. Even in an octogenarian, severe mental confusion "is a disease, not a natural decline," says (Catherine Bick, acting deputy director of the National Institute of Neurological Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS...
DIED. Simcha Ehrlich, 67, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel, an uncharismatic but influential politician and a moderate voice in Menachem Begin's ruling coalition; of a stroke; in Jerusalem. A Polish-born optician who was elected to the Knesset in 1969, he became chairman of the Liberal Party and, in 1977, Begin's Finance Minister, since the Liberals were the second largest element in the victorious Likud bloc. Ehrlich took the credit, then the blame, for the government's "economic revolution," which led to Israel's chronic triple-digit inflation. He resigned the finance portfolio...
DIED. William E. Miller, 69, seven-term New York State Republican Congressman and lawyer, who ran for Vice President of the U.S. on Barry Goldwater's ill-fated 1964 ticket; of a stroke; in Buffalo. After the defeat, Miller returned to Lockport, N.Y., and obscurity, re-emerging briefly in a 1975 American Express card commercial ("Do you know me?") for which he is at least as well remembered nationally as for his political career...
Progress has recently been made in other areas of herpes research. Dr. Lata Nerurkar of the National Institute of Neurological Communicative Disorders and Stroke has developed a 24-hour test to diagnose herpes; she predicts that a six-to eight-hour method will be available by year's end. Only six months ago it took from two to seven days to diagnose herpes. Speed is especially important in the case of women who are about to give birth. If the disease is active, doctors generally resort to caesarian delivery since the baby may become infected-often fatally-while passing...
Three other members of the heavyweight varsity--Mike Ryan, Dan Simon and John Smith--are participating in a sweeps camp in Wisconsin, vying for the U.S. National team. In addition, varsity stroke Andy Sudduth is training at Dartmouth with Coach Harry Parker for the U.S. National team, preparing to race in a foursome at the World Championships to be held in West Germany in late August. Sudduth, who already has a bronze and a silver medal from previous World Championships, will take next year off from Harvard to train for the 1984 Olympics...