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...months ago, the Maryland legislature passed "emergency" legislation prohibiting the carrying of handguns without permits and giving search-on-suspicion power to the police. This was to be the cure for violent crime, and now that its uselessness has been demonstrated, the "pass a law and solve every problem" people will howl for more gun control...
...prominent English acupuncturist (but not a doctor), resorted to the ancient explanations last week when he demonstrated his art on a nearly nude young woman on WNET, New York's educational television station. He had been treating the patient, Worsley said, for digestive complaints and mental disorientation. The "cure" was accomplished, he said, by regulating the flow of energy to various organs...
Tension headaches, the product of anxiety and fatigue, are a common malady. The usual cure is rest and nonprescription aspirin-based analgesics (for which Americans now spend more than half a billion dollars a year) or sometimes tranquilizers. Somewhat different are headaches associated with depression, which can be manifestations of patients' hostility toward themselves. They sometimes respond to antidepressant drugs and psychiatric treatment...
...member nonsmokers association has placed at the town's four entrances blue-and-white signs reading MAURIAC, THE FIRST CITY IN THE WORLD TO HAVE SAID "NO" TO TOBACCO. There are already plans afoot to launch a second antitobacco offensive this summer. Visitors, many of them smokers seeking a cure, are still pouring in and bolstering local businesses?including the tobacco shops...
...said once, "but if you were born black, you were born in jail." Malcolm would have been pleased, too, with the long lines of white supporters who marched around Mass Hall for seven days. "I have been convinced," he said, "that some American whites do want to help cure the rampant racism which is on path to destroying this country...