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...doses was that many patients on high dosage develop symptoms like those of Parkinson's disease-paralysis agitans. To psychiatrists reporting in Philadelphia last week on their trials of proclorperazine in the back wards of state hospitals, it seemed that the Parkinson signs might be more boon than bane. Using the drug in five to ten times the doses that S.K.F. recommends for office patients, Cincinnati's Dr. Douglas Goldman saw plenty of Parkinson's but decided it was a sign that the drug was reaching the nervous system in useful amounts. At New York...
...Time Study: Boon or Bane...
...expenditures, the Eisenhower Administration has sliced off a slightly smaller cut of the tax pie for the Federal Government. Last week, as state legislatures were completing their 1955 sessions, it was clear that the states are reaching out for a bigger and bigger slice. Said Chicago's Frank Bane, executive director of the Council of State Governments for the past 17 years: "In raising state taxes, there is a more extensive and more concerted drive this year -with more results. The increase this year will be almost twice as extensive and al most twice as much as the increase...
...plot of "Bizarre, Bizarre" is built around a noted mystery-writer, who admits that he has no imagination, but writes for the sake of his pretentious wife. Just when the two most fear involvement in social disgrace and disinheritance (the bane of the English middle class), they become entangled with William Kramps, the Ripper and butcher of butchers. At this point, the rich aunt, who has a secretary-companion named Victory, appears on the scene, naturally...
...bane of hi-fi wives, perhaps because female ears are more sensitive to high frequencies than the male...