Word: containment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strong Cobb & Co. of Cleveland announced a new barbiturate which in overlarge doses will turn the stomachs of "goofball" addicts and would-be suicides. Developed by Drs. Theodore Koppanyi and Joseph Fazekas of Washington, D.C., the pills contain standard barbiturates and an added safety factor, pentylenetetrazol. A powerful nerve stimulant, the safety factor counteracts the depressant effect of too much barbiturate, and long before the goofball addict drifts into euphoria or the would-be suicide passes out, pentylenetetrazol causes the unhappy user to vomit his medicine...
...immediate cause of the changes was some cases of unchivalrous black-marketeering. In 1946, a shipment of penicillin, ordered in the U.S. by an unnamed representative of the Knights, turned out to contain not only drugs but radios and other luxury goods, which the Knights' diplomatic immunity had got past Italian customs. Not long afterward, five shiploads of Argentine wheat, intended for the Knights' charitable institutions, went astray. Though the Vatican concedes that the Knights were duped by "four or five adventurers," and though the order recovered the cost of the grain, the Pope set up a tribunal...
...farmers who are losing markets through Government-rigged prices. He pointed to cotton (synthetic fibers, such as nylon and rayon, now account for the equivalent of 3,300,000 bales of cotton a year) and to wool ("The public ... has been sold on suits, rugs and other products that contain high proportions of fiber other than wool"). If these price-supported industries had been fighting to hold or expand their markets, they would not have become the victims of such deep inroads from competitors...
Your presentation of "Journalism and Joachim's Children" in the March 9 issue is a service to Western civilization . . . Man's self-announced importance and his unrestrained freedom contain the elements of his destruction...
...ancients believed, says Dr. Philip, that mashed ticks were a useful aphrodisiac, and Pliny the Elder recommended tick blood as a depilatory and as a curative ointment. There may be something to this. Recent tick-workers have shown that ticks contain an antibiotic that inhibits the growth of many bacteria...