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...sprinkle his conversation with first names of peers, maharajahs and Cabinet ministers, the suave, artistic osteopath would go to any lengths, or depths. A man of unbounded vanity himself, he flattered others' egos with facile pencil portraits, with a gleeful flow of gossip, and a magical ability to cure the aches and pains of famous friends' famous friends...
...generation ago, labeling was usu ally unimportant because only a few medicines were potent enough to do much harm. But many of today's high-powered drugs, taken by the wrong patient or at the wrong time, can maim or kill as readily as they can cure. The most notorious example is thalidomide, which was freely sold as a harmless tranquilizer and sleeping pill...
...about Szent-Gyorgyi's latest work. Neither is he. "We have made only a preliminary report," he says. "We hope other laboratories will test our theory and help to prove or disprove it. I am already getting letters from all over, asking me to send 'the cancer cure.' There is no such thing, and I have not enough material even for other laboratories. The urgent thing is for other researchers to make and test these substances...
Homecoming transatlantic travelers heaved a hopeful sigh when the U.S. Customs Service announced last week that there may be a cure for that special form of nervous upset known as baggage inspection. Pre-clearance is the magic word. As a first test, customs officials plan to station three inspectors in Naples to examine and seal all except the baggage needed en route by New York-bound passengers. The cleared trunks, parcels and crates then go into the ship's hold until debarkation...
...NEUROTIC. Some modern atheists are unquestionably neurotics - typically, the young idealist whose religious fervor turns into bitter anticlericalism after an unhappy experience in a seminary. Lepp has found that psychology can help cure such atheists of their emotional hostility toward religion, but will not affect their unbelief. "It is not in the psychologist's power either to give or to destroy faith," he warns. "This belongs to a metapsychical domain which the theologians call grace." Atheists by and large, he says, are not particularly neurotic...