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...Freud. Sex, fun and games: youth culture films attempt to portray student-police confrontation as the new campus sport. Students are heavily gassed inside an enclosed building but they can still run and sing for minutes and even gang up on an isolated policeman. The students cough: they bleed; they cry-but it is all razzle-dazzle ball and tonight they will exaggerate their battle wounds so they can sleep with the sexy chick or that long-haired John Wayne who served in "the Sorbonne, Berkeley, and now here...

Author: By Dziga Vertov, | Title: Revolution... at 16 Frames Per Second | 7/28/1970 | See Source »

According to the survey, adults aged 26 to 35 are rusty on book learning but show scientific awareness picked up from the press, TV and practical experience. Most were strongest on medical facts: 70% know that adrenalin is a stimulant to the heart, 79% that whooping cough cannot be inherited, 91% that chromosomes determine sex. Young adults did well in fact analysis and math calculations. But only 26% recalled that the periodic table shows the relationship of chemical elements, and a scant 3% correctly picked uranium-lead dating as an accurate method of determining the age of ancient rocks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Report Card for Americans | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...intricate and improbable circular flower design, are soundly beaten and busted. Although this is the strongest scene in a lackluster film, it will vastly amuse any one who has ever been gassed. The film shows the kids sitting for minutes while great billows of gas waft around them. They cough, but they do not move, a feat that is virtually impossible without a mask...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Andy Hardy Gets Busted | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...While you are taking this drug, you should have periodic examinations at intervals set by your doctor. Tell your doctor if you notice any of the following: 1) severe headache, 2) blurred vision, 3) pain in the legs, 4) pain in the chest or unexplained cough, 5) irregular or missed periods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Pill Caution | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...diphtheria because no one ever told her mother that she should have her baby inoculated against the disease-or bothered to make sure that she did it. In fact, says Egeberg, more than 20% of nonwhite children have failed to get the standard shots against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough (a combination "DTP" vaccine), while 91.4% of all white children have had them. A boy is deaf in one ear because his mother could not take him to the clinic for a second treatment of a common ear infection; to make the first visit, she had to take her five...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Racially Rationed Health | 4/6/1970 | See Source »

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