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...Fred Berger, 35, works in an advertising studio, paints snarling heads that seem embedded in rock. His purpose: "To show man as a creature who is at once magnificent and terrifying...
Money for Influence. In his campaign, Rabbi Teitelbaum has strong financial backers, and two of them were with him in Israel last week-Brooklyn Manufacturer (shortening) Israel Supnik and London Real Estate Operator Getzel Berger. With their help four years ago, Teitelbaum had offered $15 worth of foodstuffs to anyone refusing to vote in Israel's 1955 elections. In Jerusalem last week, he preached a repeat performance, persuaded many of his followers to turn over their identity cards to his aides-which means that they will not be able to vote in Israel's November general elections...
...A.M.A. launched its study two years after Dr. Herbert Berger of the New York Medical Society charged that the use of the pills was widespread in sport (TIME, June 17, 1957), intimated that they might be responsible for the rash of four-minute miles (the milers denied using pep pills). Though the use of pep pills has been banned for years by both the Amateur Athletic Union and the International Amateur Athletic Federation, seven of 773 college and high school coaches replying to the A.M.A.'s mail survey admitted they used pep pills on their athletic squads. Presumably, there...
Soma is also the Greek word for body. Last week, in a Manhattan skyscraper, Dr. Frank Berger, research director of New Jersey's Wallace Laboratories, announced that his firm was beginning to market a new wonder drug-comparable, he hoped, in its effects on the body, to his earlier discovery, meprobamate (Miltown, Equanil), in its effects on the mind. The new tablet is a powerful muscle relaxant with some unusual painkilling qualities. Tried on more than 1,400 patients for almost two years, it has proved effective for many kinds of pain in the muscles and around joints-charley...
...POWERLESS TO THREATEN CHEN CHING-KAI. Occasion for the rejoicing was a weight-lifting meet in Moscow, in which Red China's little (127 lbs.) Chen hoisted 326¼ lbs. in the clean-and-jerk to shatter the world featherweight record held by the U.S.'s Isaac Berger...