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...Ohio State University's Professor (of pharmacology) Chauncey D. Leake, 63, who is also president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The drug companies, said Dr. Leake, treat the nation's physicians as "simpletons" by flooding them with "flamboyant, exaggerated advertisements." And "these ads conceal for commercial reasons what is really essential for physicians to know." The 20,000 "detail men" (salesmen who call on doctors) seldom give the physician the scientific background necessary for wise use of a new drug. "If promotional efforts were simpler and more informative," Dr. Leake contended, drug prices could...
...Marie Antoinette, the husbands walked the sandy paths of the chateau grounds, plowing through the whole range of East-West problems: disarmament, Algeria, Berlin, and the future of Germany. Out of their talks came a five-page communiqué. The volume of the prose was an unsuccessful attempt to conceal the lack of agreement in nearly every major area. Its chief news (apart from the fact that De Gaulle will visit Moscow) was that France and Russia had agreed to an exchange of scientific data -including information on the peaceful uses of atomic energy...
...claimed that his wife had paid the bill out of her housekeeping allowance. Later he told District Attorney Frank Hogan that he had lied, confessed that Ungar had "loaned" him the money without collateral. Charged by a grand jury with violations of the city charter and with conspiracy to conceal the violations, Jack prudently suspended himself from office, the highest elective position in the U.S. held by a Negro, until "such time as a final determination of my case is made" (TIME...
...long time after India got its freedom, Socialist Jawaharlal Nehru regarded foreign investors with the narrow-eyed suspicion of a spinster convinced that friendly attentions from any man probably conceal evil designs. So U.S. investors passed India by. After all, there were plenty of other places for them to invest their money-places where markets were more developed and officialdom far less mistrustful. General Motors even closed down its automotive assembly plant in Bombay...
There was no suspicion that Ellen Lewis had tried to conceal her pregnancy, as some unmarried women (and some hysterical wives) are apt to do. Hers was one of the rare cases of genuinely unsuspected pregnancy...