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...that idea, the State Department's Inter-American Affairs chief, Roy Richard Rubottom Jr., says "unwieldy and unworkable." Nor did Dulles mention specific solutions, but Washington heard talk of such stabilizing devices as export and import quotas, buffer stocks, revolving funds to buy up surplus commodities, production controls. More ideas seem likely to be a major result of Vice President Nixon's trip through South America, scheduled to start next week...
Pardon me, TIME, but your slip is showing! In the publication of the item "Buffer Off?" in your Feb. 10 issue, we sincerely believe you were misled by the research reports in The New England Journal of Medicine...
Winters on the U.S. East Coast are ordinarily moderated by the Bermuda high, a swirling mass of moist tropical air off the Atlantic Coast that acts as a protective buffer to icy arctic blasts. This winter, because of abnormal patterns in the high altitude winds (TIME, Jan. 20), the Bermuda high has been flubbing its job. Result: successive masses of polar air have flowed down the Mississippi Valley and eastward, spreading out to reach deep into Florida, to bring abnormal cold and, in the clash with tropical air masses, heavy rains and snows...
Major trouble with previous tests in which some medical researchers thought they detected advantages in buffering the aspirin with antacids, said New York Medical College's Dr. Robert C. Batterman, was that they relied on patients' faulty memories. To rule out this and other sources of error. Dr. Batterman did "double blind" tests: identical-looking tablets, one plain, one buffered, were used with only a code letter for labeling. Neither the patients nor the doctors and nurses knew which was which until after the results were tabulated. The results showed that, buffer or no buffer, there...
...elective governor's advisory council, which survives from the Colonial period in three states (Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine) and originally was a buffer between the local assemblymen and the governor, appointed by the King...