Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before the revolution in Iraq. De Carvalho hied himself to the fighting in Yemen, where he went deeper into royalist territory than any other U.S. correspondent. It was rough going, at a "tropic latitude and a mountain altitude," with nights freezing and days burning. It wasn't only the peril of dodging Egyptian fire; once, miles from the front, a bullet whizzed by, and then as he flattened himself, an other. Out from the brush, rifle in hand, came a woman. "I thought he was an Egyptian," she said. Among the galabiya-wearing Yemeni, only Egyptians are known...
Into the Cure Column. First patient to get the benefit of Dr. Conn's aldosterone research was no tropic-bound G.I., but a 34-year-old Michigan woman whose high blood pressure (170 over 100) was accompanied by unusual features. She had muscular weakness and cramps, had to drink and urinate frequently; her low-salt sweat and abysmally low level of potassium in the blood indicated an excess of aldosterone. A medical team traced her trouble to a small tumor on her right adrenal gland, which was pumping out a flood of aldosterone although there was no excess...
...already a coterie colossus dangerously engaged in living his autobiography in Paris. Indeed, the younger man regarded Miller as so great that he was "furious that people haven't simply burst in on your privacy and carried you off to found American literature at home." Compared with Tropic of Cancer, wrote Durrell to Miller, Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Joyce's Ulysses and Wyndham Lewis' Tarr were "feeble, smudgy rough drafts...
Novelist Henry (Tropic of Cancer) Miller settled at Big Sur in 1944, found it a place "of grandeur and of eloquent silence," and attracted a group of pre-beatnik sandal wearers of all sexes, who gathered evenings for drinks and folk dancing at Nepenthe, once the house of Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth but now the region's most famous and almost only tavern, run by an intellectual refugee from San Francisco named Bill Fassett. Then came another brand of fugitive to Big Sur's beauty, such as retired Editor-Publisher William L. Chenery. ex-Diplomat-Journalist Nicholas...
Homans is best known to the Harvard community for arguing the Tropic of Cancer case, appealing it to the Massachusetts Superior Court, and finally winning it in the State Supreme Court. He has been endorsed by the ADA for his interest in civil liberties, and by COD, the Democratic reform organization, for his work toward creating a responsible Democratic party in this state...