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...partisan organization in Bagrdan. Ljubinka helped push Cupic forward in the party hierarchy, and Cupic responded by remaining her devoted lover for ten years. Once, before Tito's break with Russia, Ljubinka was sent off to Stalin's old villa on the Black Sea to recover from TB. Even that lengthy separation did not weaken Cupic's ardor. But what time and distance failed to do, party discipline at last accomplished. In 1951 the Yugoslav party (always more puritanical than its Russian counterpart) ordered both Ljubinka and Cupic to clean up their love lives. Cupic, by then...
...Peter's drive, it was Catherine who cracked first-she came down with TB. No sooner had she recovered than Peter had a serious heart attack (in real life there was a two-year interval). He survived, only to assume, on top of his other duties, those of Senate chaplain. He made a memorable start ("Lord, give us courage to stand for something, lest we fall for anything") and a sudden tragic finish; two years later he died of a second heart attack...
...mountains of Clare, the case of Bernadette Healy, 19, typified both a century of tuberculosis' ravages and the abrupt change of recent years. Her father, who raised potatoes on two acres, used to tell Bernadette how two neighboring families had been wiped out by the "shameful weakness" of TB. Though he complained about his own "weak chest," he stubbornly refused to see a doctor...
...Known cases of hepatitis (a liver infection accompanied by fever and jaundice) have tripled in the U.S. since 1952, reported the U.S. Public Health Service. The ailment now ranks fifth (behind measles, VD, scarlet fever and streptococcal sore throat, and TB) in prevalence among communicable diseases; last year 49,722 cases were reported (up nearly 50% from 1953). Present standard treatment: rest and a highprotein, liquor-free diet...
...began 40 years ago as a couple of tents on the edge of the desert for tuberculosis patients from nearby Los Angeles. Now a 75-acre complex of low, rambling buildings in well-landscaped grounds, the hospital community lives up to its name. The beds are reserved for TB, heart and cancer cases, but they must be those to whom medicine and surgery can still offer a prolonged and more comfortable life...