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...years, Dr. Johnstone kept detailed records of every dose of antibiotics given to patients in a test ward in Vancouver General Hospital. University surgeons did the operations and prescribed what they thought best. Of 1,020 patients whose wounds were not infected to begin with, 401 got prophylactic antibiotics, while 619 got none. In Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics, Dr. Johnstone reports the astonishing result: among those who got the antibiotics, 25% developed infections-almost three times the rate for the other patients. There were four times as many infections caused by staphylococci. Those World War II battlefield germs, notes Dr. Johnstone...
...Kerr was born in an Oklahoma log cabin; he became the wealthiest member of the U.S. Senate. He could have bought Brooks Brothers out of the change in his pants pocket; but his baggy blue suits looked as if they had been ordered from a Montgomery Ward catalogue. He was a deeply Christian man who gave at least 30% of his vast wealth to the Baptist church; yet he felt no compunction whatever about using his Senate position to fight for tax laws that would enhance his own riches. He could be gentle; once, when a longtime Negro houseman...
...direction was set by current Chairman S. H. (for Sieng Heng) Ho, 62. Spotting the success Western banks were having by talking about "your friendly banker." Ho began to woo the small savers who had been overlooked by the older banks in Hong Kong. Like Tammany ward heelers in the 1870s, Hang Seng men greeted incoming refugees, helped to straighten out their visa and legal problems and to find them homes. Today, Hang Seng sometimes seems to be one big Chinese mutual aid society devoted to sending mourners to its clients' funerals and helping clients' children choose...
...Christmas Day, John made the first visit outside the Vatican since his illness?to the Bambino Gesu Hospital for children on nearby Janiculum Hill. There he spent 40 minutes walking from ward to ward and speaking personally to almost every child. He talked to them about his own illness. To the doctors and children at Bambino Gesu, he said: "You see, I am in perfect condition. Oh, I am not yet ready to run any races or enter in contests, but in all I am feeling well." Nonetheless, the feeling persisted in Rome that he is still far from well...
Subscribers pay $30 a month for the direct telephone line to Telecredit, plus 20? each for every inquiry above 150. So far, 400 Los Angeles companies have signed up, including Sears, Montgomery Ward, the May Co., and almost all major supermarket chains in the area. Katz and Goldman expect to expand into San Francisco and San Diego this year, then reach eastward. One of their sales points: the number of bad checks passed in Los Angeles declined almost...