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...Texas home at Uvalde, onetime Vice President John Nance ("Cactus Jack'') Garner turned 89, struck a pose of grizzled gumption for a birthday photo. His birthday program: a few "blows for liberty" (bourbon and branch water), no outing, many visitors...
Actually, besides germs in water and food, doctors indict other villains, including the oil used in cooking, hot seasonings, even climate, altitude and just plain overeating. Mexicans, among whom dysentery is endemic, use such home-grown remedies as guava juice and seeds, guava-leaf tea, cactus pear seeds. Medically more accepted remedies: bismuth and paregoric, or in well-diagnosed cases under a doctor's care, the newer antibiotics. Currently popular is a new nonprescription tablet made by Ciba Pharmaceuticals called Entero-Vioform (an antiseptic containing iodine). A lot of these treatments, Mexicans hope, may become unnecessary as a result...
Look Back in Anger (by John Osborne) hit England with a bang last year and it is clear enough why. On the one hand, it jabbed some good spiny cactus into the aspidistra drama of the English stage; on the other hand, it clangingly echoed a new generation's call to disorder in English life. And it had something more than the Zeitgeist or England's general theatrical anemia to recommend it; it had a man who could really write...
...arbutus and the goldenrod The heart of the North may cheer And sunflower, cactus and poppy To sierra and plain be dear, And jasmine and magnolia The crest of the South adorn; But the wide Republic's emblem Is the bounteous, golden Corn...
Neither of the two is habit forming, however, and thus it is questionable whether they can be outlawed as narcotics. Similar drugs are used in the rites of certain tribes of Indians in Mexico and the southwestern United States. The cactus plants are reportedly available by mail from biological supply houses in that part of the country...