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...American Way. Football stadia and dozens of marching bands stood ready for the bowl games; so, for the night before, did hundreds of nightclubs and hotels, endless shelves of whisky, thousands of waiters, bartenders, jugglers, tenors and striptease dancers, and a fortune in fizz water, paper horns, tow cars, aspirin and ice bags...
...Aspirin & Peace. After 40 years of behind-the-scenes politicking, usually as a member of the out-of-power faction, clever Laureano Gómez, 61, took his inauguration in full stride. He pledged non-violent democratic government, but claimed that the state of siege was still necessary to preserve peace. Said he: "We'll give the patient aspirin as long as the fever continues." The Liberals, Gómez said, "won't recognize me. I respect their point of view. For them I am not President, so naturally I cannot appoint them [to my government...
This week the Supreme Court upheld the Taft-Hartley provision requiring non-Communist oaths from labor leaders-a clause that was once labor's bitterest pill, and has since proved almost as easy to take as an aspirin. The justices had a hard time making up their collective mind: Chief Justice Vinson's majority opinion was shared by Justices Burton and Reed; Justice Frankfurter was on their side, but for his own rendered reasons; Justice Black flatly dissented; and Justice Jackson was somewhere in the middle, partly agreeing, partly dissenting. Three others (Justices Douglas, Clark and Minton) stayed...
...fact, the uncounted, creaking legions of rheumatoid arthritis victims had nothing last week that they did not have last year-except more hope. They were not likely ever to get ACTH or cortisone for routine treatment. Now, as for years past, they would get bed rest, exercises, and aspirin to ease the pain...
Liebman confidently expects that these financial headaches will be eased by the aspirin of top-notch entertainment. CBS has already shifted the Ed Wynn Show, the Saturday Night Revue's strongest competitor, to Tuesdays. "We're trying to make people feel that they're eavesdropping on a Broadway show," says Liebman. "I think we can do it, too." There was only one evidence of self-doubt: "I just hope NBC doesn't expect us to keep this up 52 weeks a year...