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...week's end the Chessman whirlwind was spinning over the globe with renewed power. U.S. Information Agency posts abroad hurriedly cranked out dossiers on Chessman for the benefit of those who had long forgotten (or had never known) the details of the man's crimes. California's State Senate Majority Leader Hugh Burns, Democrat and once Brown's most effective supporter, charged that the Governor had let "the people of California down." In Chicago, the American Bar Association ordered a study to determine whether federal legislation is needed to limit multiple appeals...
...crediting Editor Morrison with such influence, Light was pointing a finger at what may be the biggest boom in U.S. newspapers: education reporting, long neglected by the nation's daily press but now getting the benefit of better talent and more news space than ever before...
Excluded Placebo. Caution personified, Dr. Baronofsky would make no precise claims for benefit to these patients because none has been observed for longer than a year. It is important, he noted, to rule out the "placebo effect"-many heart patients feel better if they only think that something has been done. Dr. Baronofsky has devised a method, which he would not disclose, to get around this difficulty. He is also comparing irradiated patients with others who have had heart surgery...
...issue hardest. "Tight money," cries Johnson in a scrambled metaphor, "can only mean a tight grip of stagnation about the windpipe of our future." Humphrey, playing on an old Populist dislike of bankers, claims that the Administration's tight-money policy, by pushing up interest rates, is "a benefit for the big banks...
Kintner's announcement ended a long struggle by the FTC to clarify the benefit of filters for the baffled smoker. An FTC request in 1952 for an injunction to stop health-claim tobacco advertisements was blocked when the U.S. District Court ruled that cigarettes are not a "drug." Later the FTC suggested certain guide lines to assist the companies in documenting their claims, but let them use their own testing laboratories until the commission was able to develop a standard tar-and-nicotine test. The FTC never was able to establish a standard amid the welter of laboratory tests...