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...even dinosaurs suffered from it 200,000,000 years ago. Arthritis has always bedeviled the human race. The great thermal baths built by the Romans are monuments to the aching bones of the middle-aged Romans who had it. Today, in the U.S., the 6,850,000 people with swollen arthritic joints far outnumber the sufferers from any other chronic disease (including heart disease, hardening of the arteries, high blood pressure). Arthritis causes more days lost from work than industrial accidents, or any disease except nervous and mental ailments...
Robert Porter Patterson, 51, a blunt, monkish onetime Federal Appeals Court judge, was doing K.P. duty in the Army reserve camp at Plattsburg the day he was appointed Assistant Secretary of War. In Washington he got an equally messy job: channeling the Army's swollen, muddied procurement program. He went to work in shirt sleeves, vest dangling, jaws chomping gum, his right arm working like a pump handle as he announced decisions. Soon he was promoted to Under Secretary. Judicial Bob Patterson's plodding, plugging methods have led him down many a blind alley. But they have also...
Gambling Seattle. Staid Seattle, its population swollen from 368,000 to 508,000 by war workers, has had twice as many arrests for drunkenness in six months as it had all last year. The city has its first successful burlesque house in 20 years. Customers stand in line at restaurants and theaters, pack the out-of-town roadhouses, keep the 25? slot machines clicking. Fourth Avenue and Pike Street, the hub of downtown Seattle, is often jampacked nearly 24 hours...
...some 7,000 feet high. I had had malaria every couple of weeks since December and the day we reached the Assam border I couldn't have walked another step. When we reached civilization I was down to 50% hemoglobin, had lost 35 pounds and my legs were swollen to the knees...
...there are no solitary termites. They have three major castes: reproductives, workers and soldiers. With a male as well as a female reproductive in each colony, termites differ from all other social insects, which are matriarchic. They are the most fecund of all land animals. Some queens become enormously swollen with eggs, attaining a length of over five inches-20,000 times bigger than soldiers and workers. They produce as many as 7,000 eggs a day for incredible periods -sometimes as long as 40 years...