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...condition was named for James Parkinson, an English physician who described it in 1817. An affliction that has claimed many famous victims,-it is marked by slowness and stiffness of movement, facial immobility, shuffling gait, forward-leaning posture, and "pill-rolling" movements with the fingers. Most characteristic is the tremor, usually of the limbs, sometimes of the head, especially noticeable at rest. It does not kill. Drugs relieve a few of the symptoms, but the only radical treatment is daring brain surgery pioneered by New York University's Dr. Irving Cooper, followed by intensive physiotherapy and exercises...
Other nations-notably the U.S., Russia, France, Britain, Italy, Japan, Canada and Australia-have fired weather rockets. But Shavit was the first fired by any Middle Eastern country, and a tremor of alarm ran through Israel's Arab neighbors (the Arabs suffered a similar tremor seven months ago when Israel admitted it was constructing a 24,000-kw. nuclear reactor). Presumably, any nation that can send a rocket winging 50 miles up for wind data can readjust its flight for military purposes. Jordan's Prime Minister Bahjat Talhouni said his government was "extremely concerned...
...Tremor. There was no tremor in his voice when he spoke out on the dominant issue of the day: the fate of Berlin. Aiming his words over the heads of the note-taking reporters to Moscow, the President charged that "the 'crisis' over Berlin is Soviet manufactured." He admitted that there was still the "un finished business" of a peace treaty in West Germany, expressed Western willingness to discuss sensible proposals that would further guarantee the freedom of Berlin. But the Western stand on Berlin, he said, "is not just a question of technical legal rights. It involves...
Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd's walkout from the Commonwealth sent a tremor through the Union of South Africa. Many of the English-speaking minority felt a sinking sensation as their last link with Britain was severed. Diamond Magnate Harry Oppenheimer called the news "appalling." Said Johannesburg's Englishlanguage Star: "A time of deep sadness for all South Africans except the Afrikaner extremist whose hostility to all things English was not appeased by the break with monarchy." The Cape Times said: "Now we are a lonely little republic at the foot of turbulent Africa...
Pete is one of the hiring agents, short, brusque, a smoker of foul cigars and an enigma under his greasy brown hat. When he appears, an electric tremor shoots through the hall. Everyone "shapes" for Pete; it becomes a matter of pride to be picked by him. Most of the men know that he never will choose them, yet they jostle to get into the front row of his section, and even the oldtimers grow rigid with respect and intimidation when someone calls out: "Here comes Pete now." To the young hero narrator it becomes a matter of the first...