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...untapped rural labor reserves. In other European countries, the supply of working men and women dwindles inevitably in inverse proportion to the desire for luxury goods. "Baby or car?" asks the Hungarian young married couple. In Budapest, where "it's easier to get an abortion than to cure a toothache," services-hungry city dwellers have dragged the birth rate down to a level that, if continued, could lead to a population loss by the end of the century. Rumania, with a birth rate of 14.5 per thousand, is in no such trouble, and since the main reason for Western...
Peritrate itself is a specific for angina pectoris. While the FDA admits that the drug relieves the savage pain of the heart disease, it denies that Peritrate effects any actual cure. Yet, in a recent advertising campaign, Warner-Lambert asks the question, "Is Peritrate life-sustaining?" and seems to answer it affirmatively by presenting charts based on a study by Dr. Alexander Oscharoff, head of the adult cardiac clinic at Queens Hospital Center. The charts indicate that heart patients treated with Peritrate stand a 22% better chance of being alive two years after a heart attack than those who were...
Weiner didn't fill it; he didn't attempt to. He sees himself as having run an institutionalized, intellectual organization, admitting that maybe a circus is what Young Dems needs to camouflage, if not to cure, its anemia. He speaks for himself as a transitional leader, presiding over the club as it adapted itself to its new size and bank account. The transition, he implies, is up to the new president, Larry Seidman, to define and complete...
Passage of the sales tax is an important step forward, but it is no magical cure for Massachusetts' ills. New leaders with a genuine and less political commitment are still desperately needed...
...vegetable. To 250,000 Americans, most of whom should be denied possession of such information for their own good, squash is also a game played on an enclosed court with rackets and a rocklike India-rubber ball. Enthusiasts talk about the sport's "therapeutic values," particularly as a cure for hangover; one U.S. Navy skipper thinks so much of it as a conditioner that he has had a court in stalled on his submarine tender. The truth is that squash is onomatopoetic: anybody who lets himself get locked into a 32-ft. by 18½-ft. court with another...