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...Love's face is beet-red and scarred with acne, and she has to shave daily. She has muscles like a male athlete's. Doctors warn that because Mrs. Love has a tendency to bleed heavily, she cannot risk a cut or undergo ordinary surgery. A fortnight ago. a jury awarded her $334,046 in damages from Dr. Wolf and Parke. Davis & Co., the drug's manufacturers. Her case, the first of its type to go to a jury, dramatized what are laconically called the "side effects" of many valuable drugs, and the problems of balancing...
...voice rising, his face turning beet red, Khrushchev declared that none of the Western powers had built a bomb of even 50 megatons. Shouted he: "The 50-and 100-megaton bombs will always hang over their heads like the sword of Damocles...
With his sunburned face the shade of a beet, Vice President Lyndon Baines Johnson arrived home last week from his nearly 30,000-mile "fact-seeking" mission through Asia. The White House, emphasizing the importance of the trip, gave him a hero's welcome: John Kennedy dispatched a brace of helicopters to Andrews Air Force Base for L.B.J. and his Lady Bird, ordered out the Cabinet and the diplomatic corps for a greeting ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. That done, Johnson withdrew with the President and Secretary of State Dean Rusk to Kennedy's study...
...Sugar-beet producers, who supply 24% of U.S. consumption, also see a 10% increase in production to 2,700,000 tons this year. But the sugar-beet men are cautious about the future. They want to see what sort of sugar law Congress passes when the old one expires March 31. (Congress seems likely to follow Dwight Eisenhower's request to extend the present law while a new sugar policy is worked out.) They are also wary of the effects of a sudden return to good relations with Cuba after their expansion plans are well under way. The Florida...
...campaign, persistent, oratorical Democrat William Guy, 41, an agricultural economist and sugar-beet grower, argued that after 16 years of Republican Governors, North Dakota was due for a change. The voters agreed. Crew-cut Billy Guy, who wants a state income tax to finance needed school expansion, was an easy winner over Lieutenant Governor Clarence P. Dahl, 68, a spry, folksy campaigner with an undistinguished record...