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...happened." Tuesday's Faculty meeting belonged to the latter sort. The Faculty had unexpectedly spent almost half its meeting debating whether the campus visit of the Dow Chemical Company next week should be postponed. That was excitement enough, but in addition the meeting produced a new, and much clearer definition of the role the Student Faculty Advisory Council is likely to have in University decision-making...

Author: By Richard R. Edmonds, | Title: It Kept Them Talking | 2/17/1968 | See Source »

...frauds, 2) a major study of automobile-insurance practices, 3) more measures to protect the public from radiation by electronic appliances, 4) blanketing the states with tougher poultry-inspection rules, 5) federal standards on the purity and quality of fish, 6) a safety program for pleasure boats, 7) clearer warranties on appliances and a federal eye on the quality of repairs, and 8) a "consumers' counsel" in the Justice Department to speak up in court for that perpetual patsy, the consumer. "Do you foresee the repeal of Barnum's law?"* a newsman asked as Ramsey Clark glowingly outlined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Administration: Three to the Hill | 2/16/1968 | See Source »

Adults Only? In Dallas, Viva Maria, a Brigitte Bardot-Jeanne Moreau movie, was barred to children. City Attorney N. Alex Bickley conceded that Viva was a "marginal case." But though he might have preferred a clearer example, he argued that it was rightly banned because of a few scenes that might suggest to juveniles that sexual promiscuity was desirable or commonly accepted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pornography: Ban for Kids? | 1/26/1968 | See Source »

Seltzer added that a close study of the evidence in new reports does not make it any clearer that there is a causal connection between cigarette smoking and coronary heart disease...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Scientist Counters Claim That Smoking Is a Heart Threat | 1/16/1968 | See Source »

...court by a judge in the U.S. But the tape is not likely to be surpassed soon for dramatic impact. In preparation for the second trial, Kid-well's lawyer had sent him to the nearby Menninger Clinic in the hope that he would tell doctors there a clearer story about the murder night than he had yet told anyone else. Psychiatrist Joseph Satten, chief of Menninger's law and psychiatry division, decided to try sodium amobarbital, which, though not a truth drug, can help a patient relive a traumatic experience he is unconsciously trying to avoid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: Reliving a Murder | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

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