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...President already possesses full power to order up to 1,000,000 Ready Reservists to duty by declaring a national emergency. His request for legislation thus was made for its psychological and political effect, creating an illusion of action to allay growing criticism of inaction in Cuba. The scare headlines enhanced the illusion-but the Kremlin has a sharp eye for small type and would scarcely be frightened. Moreover, Soviet and Castro propagandists now had a handy new handle to hurl charges of U.S. "warmongering...
...Berliners think that the Wall will fall in their lifetime. Many realists feel that it is possible at least to allay the tensions it breeds. One way of easing misery would be to establish an international commission to repatriate divided families; as it becomes more and more hazardous to escape from East Germany, Ulbricht's regime might welcome the measure of respectability to be derived from reuniting hardship cases-even though the traffic would be overwhelmingly...
When doctors began to link smoking and lung cancer ten years ago, the U.S. tobacco industry deftly headed off catastrophe by switching to filter brands, which seemed to allay the public's fears. Since then U.S. cigarette consumption has puffed merrily on to new highs year after year (24 billion packs last year), and most of the major manufacturers have reaped a harvest of profit records. Suddenly last week the cancer scare rose up again, setting off a flurry of selling on the New York Stock Exchange that tumbled every major U.S. cigarette producer's stock...
Chemie Gruenenthal burbled: "Contergan is especially well suited for calming down anxious, nervous and restless children . . . Excellent for babies." Obstetricians who found that it tranquilized pregnant women prescribed it to allay morning sickness. Consumption shot up in many countries. Last April, the Canadian subsidiary of Cincinnati's Wm. S. Merrell Co. put it on prescription sale in Canada...
Despite the tropical heat, the Zinacantecos drink little water while working. If the men found small purple flowers growing, they might pick one and suck its bitter stem. The juice of the flower helps to allay thirst. But otherwise, the walapoho suffers the fate of any other weed, tumbled over by the hoes into the black earth. Work ended around four in the afternoon: water had to be hauled, and the mules taken care of. One of the men might go hunting with an old muzzle-loading shotgun while others looked for mushrooms...