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Probably the bitterest battle is being fought between Carter's Little Liver Pills and the FTC. Since IQ43 the commission has been after Carter's on grounds that the product is nothing more than an ordinary laxative, with "no therapeutic effect" on the liver. The case has been endlessly dragged through the courts is still unsettled. Last week FTC again demanded that Carter Products, Inc. drop the word "liver" from the brand name. Sample Carter commercial: "Five New York doctors now have proved you can break the laxative habit . . . Carter's Little Liver Pills improve the flow...
...bitterest enemies, he is a publicity-seeking menace; to the casual observer, he seems a harmless buffoon; to the Harvard administration he is an ever-increasing annoyance; to the Harvard student, he is the source of a possible riot; but to the citizens of East Cambridge, he is simply "Al," their friend and protector...
...bitterest communal riots since the 1947 partition convulsed much of India last week and spread across the border to Pakistan. At least 23 Hindus and Moslems were dead, another 500 injured. The riots ripped the delicate fabric of peaceful Hindu-Moslem relations and dealt a cruel blow to Prime Minister Nehru's belief that in nine years of the "secular" state the ancient religious animosities of his people had been "healed and forgotten...
...Washington's bitterest technical squabbles, the long rivalry between aircraft-guidance systems, reached a new phase last week. The Air Coordinating Committee announced a compromise plan that looks like a desperate attempt to offend no one. The plan recommends that both guidance systems, VOR (Very High Frequency Omnirange) and TACAN (Tactical Air Navigation) be "combined" under the hybrid name of VORTAC...
REPUBLIC STRIKE, one of bitterest in recent aviation history, is ending after 15 weeks. Jet-plane maker and 12,000 Machinists' union workers have agreed on 17½? hourly package wage increase, less than half what union originally demanded, three times what company first offered...