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...Chemical Society whipped up the familiar enthusiasm for pentazocine, a drug developed by Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute. Synthesized from coal tar, pentazocine has been tested at Baylor University School of Medicine in Houston. "With this drug," says Baylor's Dr. Arthur S. Keats, "the fear of addiction in chronic pain will be eliminated." But because further tests are needed, not until December will the Food and Drug Administration be asked to approve pentazocine for general prescription use. And it will take much longer to show whether it is really better than many disappointing predecessors...
...itself, yet unable to make ends meet. It has little to live on but cut-over mahogany forests, a few rice fields, and sugar cane and grapefruit plantations. In the tin-roofed capital of Belize, there are still no underground sewers or running water. British handouts take care of chronic trade deficits and keep the economy from collapse. But a fortnight ago, Britain was ready to grant British Honduras what so many other colonies have already been given. Self-government, it was announced, will begin next January under prickly but reliable First Minister George Price, 44, whose party has held...
...News week, two art magazines, a pair of profitable TV stations and a burgeoning news service, had for more than a year been suffering from a mentalailment that intermittently but increasingly removed him from his daily work. For the past six weeks he had been a voluntary patient for chronic manic de pression at a psychiatric hospital in suburban Washington...
According to Edward S. La Monte '65, committee chairman, approximately 120 Summer School students, comprising ten ward groups, are participating in the summer work at Metropolitan State and Boston State Hospitals. A different group visits a different chronic ward every afternoon and evening...
Johnson, who was one of the Harvard students involved, said the group went to Baltimore to help dramatize the situation at the park, which has been a point of chronic irritation for years. "We also though it was a most fitting way to spend July 4," Johnson added...