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Just about the commonest complaint seen by the surgeon is one of the least talked-about but most advertised of human conditions: hemorrhoids, or piles. Last week the Federal Trade Commission decided that some clear talk was needed not only about hemorrhoids, but about the advertising claims made by manufacturers of suppositories and ointments for their treatment. These preparations, said the FTC, "at best only afford temporary relief of minor itching . . . and some types of pain." So it ordered the companies "to stop falsely advertising them as cures...
Today's humor may not be much rougher than it was on the American frontier, but it has shed its inhibitions in full public view. Sex is no longer a taboo topic; it is, in fact, one of the commonest. Humor has not only been firmly entrenched in the bedroom, but is increasingly being brought into the bathroom. Even caustic Cartoonist Jules Feiffer says: "It's astounding what's allowable today." The gentle comedies that once titillated the town have been replaced by such farces as What's New Pussycat? and Kiss Me, Stupid, in which...
About 200 such complexes are being planned or built. They offer a businessman greater mobility than even today's frequent airline flights allow, enable him to land right where his business is, bypassing airports, taxis and traffic. Industrial airparks are commonest in the West and Southwest (Texas already has at least 70), but others are in operation or being planned near such places as St. Louis, Cleveland, Cape Kennedy and Washington...
...Jones & Laughlin President William J. Stephens, 58, who had pleaded no contest to Government charges that from 1955 to 1961, while he was a sales executive of Bethlehem Steel, he had met with other industry men in Manhattan hotel rooms to rig some prices on carbon sheets, the commonest grade of steel. Also facing the same sentence was a lesser executive, James P. Barton, 63, a U.S. Steel assistant general manager...
Psychological Hangover. By far the commonest reason, wherever the law is liberally construed, is not the physical condition of the mother-to-be but her mental state. Many pregnant women insist that if they are forced to carry and bear an unwanted child, they will go mad or commit suicide. The majority who claim this are married women who have had as many children as they want. Few of those who see their pregnancies through ever suffer from mental breakdowns; similarly, few who get legal abortions are left with a severe psychological scar. But psychiatrists and other doctors tend...