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Among the commonest ills of man, ranking close to constipation and headaches, is the wide range of supposed digestive upsets mistakenly described as "acid indigestion." Every day, millions of Americans complain of "heartburn" or "sour stomach." TV commercials spiel endlessly about "acid upset." Some sufferers try to dignify their complaints with such technical terms as hyperacidity and acidosis. By whatever name, the problem is a high-up bellyache, and those who suffer from it in the U.S. lay out $90 million each year for antacids and alkalizers...
...baffled, pointing out that "the age composition of the female population, with increasing numbers of women entering the childbearing ages, is favorable to a higher level of fertility." Unofficial guessers attributed the decline to World War II (girls born in the 1946 baby boom are only now approaching the commonest marrying age) and the introduction of oral contraceptives...
...that lot, but the most important case of its kind since 29 electrical equipment companies were brought to court on similar charges three years ago. But where the electrical case concerned multimillion-dollar tur bine generators that seemed remote from the everyday consumer, the new indictment covered the commonest grade of steel-the carbon sheets that go into almost every car, refrigerator and washing machine made...
Ingenious Solutions. Commonest solution is the annual parking fee, ranging up to $75. Other ingenious methods are being tried. To plow tax money into parking, Berkeley is building big garages roofed with tennis courts and athletic fields. To solve the land shortage (new buildings are eating up old parking lots), the University of Washington is integrating kids and cars in combined garage-dormitories. But Fordham University failed when it tried to call in the commercial Kinney System Inc. to run a $225,000 parking operation -price-protesting students chanted "Let the lot rot!" And just having rich alumni, as Harvard...
...deprive someone who has not yet read it of all desire to do so." Third, the romantic novelist, whose "happy hunting ground is the field of unanswerable questions, particularly if they concern the private lives of the authors." Finally, Auden says, "jolliest of them all is the maniac. The commonest of his kind is the man who believes that poetry is written in cyphers... My favorite is the John Bellendon Kerr who set out to prove that English nursery rhymes were originally written in a form of Old Dutch invented by himself...