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...hard to live with a recurring vision of nuclear ruin, and yet, repressing the evidence of danger, like taking aspirin for a tumor, provides relief perhaps, but no cure. Once the danger is faced, we either place our faith in the system of nuclear deterrence or else find steps away from it. The first appears increasingly perilous, especially when present trends are projected even a decade (ten years ago we had no long-range missiles, no fusion bomb...
When the crop is big enough, a sample is put into a cotton-stoppered vial inside a bigger vial, and frozen solid. When the air is pumped out of the vial, the frozen water departs as vapor, leaving a dry residue that looks like an aspirin tablet and contains perhaps 1,000,000 deeply sleeping germs. Some germs will live for 20 years in this state, and can be awakened by adding nutrient. Thus encouraged, they multiply-and then can be put back to sleep again for another 20 years...
...Kennedy is still no partisan of the overoptimistic, positive-thinking branch of Protestantism, which he describes as "a spiritual aspirin tablet, a spiritual glass of Ovaltine." He adds: "Any church that starts out to be a success in the world's eyes is doomed to failure...
...Aspirin & Sophistication. In the U.S., such old favorites as Hill's Cascara Quinine (Whitehall Pharmacal Co.) and Bromo Quinine (Grove Laboratories, Inc.) retain a faithful but shrinking following. They have been crowded to the side of druggists' counters by supposedly more sophisticated products of the antibiotic, antihistamine age. A current favorite is Coricidin (Schering Corp.), combining APC with a small enough dose of the antihistamine Chlor-Trimeton to be sold without prescription. If the customer does not know what he wants, many druggists recommend this. Competitive runners-up: Dristan (Whitehall) and Super-Anahist (Anahist Research Laboratories). Ascorbic acid...
Customers often ask for antibiotics. Instead of explaining that no antibiotic does any good against virus infections, druggists usually tell them they need a prescription. (Virtually the only antibiotic preparations not on prescription are tablets containing small amounts, for sore throats.) They then generally recommend aspirin in one of the proprietary versions of APC on which there is a fat price markup. Though the medical benefits of aspirin are not easily measured, most doctors agree that it does some good, somehow...