Word: branded
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Chlorpromazine (brand name: Thorazine), first of the ataraxics or tranquilizing drugs used in North America, has clinched its leadership as the one most generally effective in treating the severe mental illnesses that usually need hospitalization. The earlier used, the better. It is best in agitated cases, least effective (and occasionally harmful) in the depressed. After three years of experience with it, doctors are less jittery, though still wary, about undesirable reactions-lowering of blood pressure, damage to the liver or white blood cells...
...Wake Forest, N.C., at the last commencement of Southern Baptist Wake Forest College before it moves to a brand-new campus at Winston-Salem, N.C., retiring Language Professor Hubert Mc-Neill Poteat told the graduating class that "we have in our Baptist ranks more than our share of bigots. Moreover, they have always had, and now have, their scouts and sleuths and spies on this campus, armed with little notebooks in which they diligently scribble comments on the utterances of their professors, that they may presently pass them on to our self-appointed Baptist Popes, cardinals and bishops...
Their weakness in allowing students to smoke is deplorable. Cigarettes should be checked lest they have messages on them; brand names should be erased lest they have a symbolic value. In the bathrooms, there is obvious need for more vigilance. Improvements on the present system can not be discussed here...
...Getting the bugs out" is standard procedure whenever anything as complex as a new airplane is delivered. The trouble with Central African Airways' brand-new Vickers Viscount propjet was that the bugs would not go. They were not, in fact, airplane-type bugs at all, but a swarm of 75,000 bees which came hiving out of nowhere soon after the plane landed in Salisbury, to take up happy residence in one of its wings. Central's mechanics scattered, and to replace them, the airline called in a local beekeeper, Jack Garrett. Blow smoke or gas into...
...week's end airline officials decided that there was nothing to do but wheel their brand-new plane into a hangar and take it apart...