Word: commonness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Price Jr., professor of Government and Dean of the Faculty of Public Administration, will speak tonight at 8 p.m. in the Kirkland House Junior Common Room. His topic, "Government Service: Politics and Administration" is one in the Conference on Careers series...
Long Way to Market. While this seems simple common sense, it took eight years to persuade Congress to enact a direct reversal of the old law-under which the burden of proof was on the FDA to 1) show that ar additive in food already marketed was dangerous, and 2) get it banned by court order. Need for the new law has been intensified by speeding changes in U.S. food growing, marketing and eating habits: less and less food is grown at home or near the point of consumption; more and more is shipped great distances, takes longer to reach...
Biggest complicating factor is a basic fact of pharmacology: there is no sharp line between poisonous and nonpoisonous substances-common salt can be a poison in excess, and arsenic can be a lifesaver. Dr. Arnold J. Lehman, the FDA's pharmacology director, quotes the Swiss Alchemist-Physician Paracelsus (1493-1541): "Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy." Some chemicals are poisonous over the years even in minute doses, and these the FDA will ban outright. But in the main, under its new legislative charter to protect...
...finished and the big bad chief is captured, Venka gives all credit to his peasant partner, assumes that he will be treated decently as a reward for his help. Instead, Venka's boss takes credit for the job as a Communist coup, has Baukin arrested as a common criminal. In a climax out of keeping with Venka's character, the young hero puts a bullet through his brain...
...British Universities in the Welfare State" will be discussed by Peter Laslett, Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, this evening at 7:30 p.m. in the Senior Common Room of Winthrop House...