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Remembering the Holocaust Stefan Kanfer's account of the presidential commission's journey to the sites of the Holocaust [Aug. 20] is a gut-wrenching reminder of the sinister events of only a generation ago. Rereading it once a year will truly keep alive the last command in...
Now the persuaders seem to be making a comeback. A television commercial for children's toys included the subliminal message "Get it!" until the Federal Communications Commission issued a warning against further TV or radio subliminations. In the movie The Exorcist the image of a death mask was flashed...
...commissioners' favorite means of transport were "air taxis," or executive jets, costing more than $600,000 last year. Italy's Lorenzo Natali made so many official trips to Rome that he managed to spend 104 days of the year in the Italian capital rather than in the commission's Brussels headquarters...
Though the commissioners each receive from $20,000 to $33,000 a year for "representational" entertainment, depending on their individual ranks, in addition to their salaries of $122,000 to $145,000, they exceeded their allowances by 24%, according to the audit. Stung by the charge, Jenkins issued a denial, arguing that the auditors were wrong in calling the 24% an "overrun." The total amount spent, $376,000, he said, was still less than the $381,300 he claimed the European Parliament had allocated for entertainment by the commissioners. But Jenkins promised to publish quickly the commission's response...
The Food and Drug Administration and Federal Trade Commission have launched investigations, and local authorities are cracking down. Some people are suing. Few of the clinics are run by medically qualified skin specialists, but the trade is obviously lucrative. In 1978 Donald Underwood, an osteopath, is said by the New...