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Last week the novel method was under hopeful study in both the U.S. and faraway Africa. The drug Dr. Sullivan and his colleagues chose was Methotrexate, because it has a handy, harmless and effective antagonist in folinic acid, also known as CF, for citrovorum factor. At Memorial and other hospitals, they have tried the combination on a score of patients with cancer confined to the head, where a high concentration of the drug could be infused through a single artery in the neck. In many cases the cancers shrank rapidly, and one man is disease-free after two courses...
Critique of Reason. Frankfurter has a deserved reputation as a wicked verbal antagonist. Asked his opinion of a grandson of Ralph Waldo Emerson who was serving as Governor General of the Philippines, Frankfurter snapped: "I think Emerson passed through him without stop ping." In crossing blades with Alice Longworth, the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, Frankfurter said she had all her father's biases. "Why shouldn't I?" Alice Longworth replied. "Your father's a great man and entitled to biases," said Frankfurter...
...Gaulle spent a cordial half-hour with his old friend and antagonist. Sir Winston Churchill. Addressing the combined Houses of Parliament in the high-raftered magnificence of Westminster Hall, he launched into an eloquent, 20-minute address that proved to be a long paean of praise for things British. Almost wistfully, De Gaulle noted that "with you, in the political field, tradition, loyalty and the rules of the game are so strong that your government is quite naturally endowed with cohesion and endurance. Your Parliament, for the duration of each legislature, has an assured majority, and the government and this...
...drug's effects begin to show within 15 minutes to two hours; a single LSD-psychotherapy session may last five to six hours. Half an hour before it ends, the doctors give an antagonist drug (usually secobarbital or chlorpromazine) to cut short LSD's lingering effects; they make sure that the patient does not drive home and they often prescribe sedatives for the next couple of days...
...side of the body may be affected), it can nevertheless be built up by exercising healthy muscles near by, or the corresponding set on the opposite side. Significant evidence: one subject exercised her left forearm flexor, got a 76% increase in its strength, plus a 20% boost in its antagonist extensor muscle, and an amazing 130% in the unexercised right flexor and 50% in the right extensor...