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...constitutional draft was strong medicine. Its fairly mild reception reflected the common recognition of the need for a strong cure, as well as the fact that half of France was on holiday. But overriding all else was the concern expressed even by Historian Siegfried that the alternative to De Gaulle might be a "civil war between a seditious threat and a Communist threat of a popular front...
...favoring an analytic type of psychiatry. Now in the British Medical Journal, a brusque, no-nonsense Welshman indicates that it is time to boot the psychiatrists out and pump the patient full of food. His simple reasoning: the only treatable aspect of the baffling disorder is starvation, and the cure for starvation is food...
...people of Houston went to the polls last week and used their ballots to cure a strange malady-a perennial case of "one of our hospitals is missing." Beginning ten years ago, to care for the needy ill of the mushrooming oil-rich city and surrounding Harris County, $12 million was set aside. It was plain that Jefferson Davis Hospital was hopelessly inadequate. Overcrowding was rated a major factor this year in the deaths of 18 babies in a staphylococcus epidemic (TIME. March 31). Still no hospital was in sight...
...each to the others. Conclusion: the current recession is the shortest and probably the mildest of the three. It is also the recession that proved it a fallacy to consider tax cuts and heavy Government public works pump-priming, either together or separately, as the speediest and surest cure for any business...
...Elizabeth. Now 75 and living in well-fed Australian retirement, Sir James Gordon Partridge Bisset sits in the lee of the longboat and spins a salty yarn of life in an oldtime square-rigger. On his first voyage, Bisset was seasick. The mate gave him an old-fashioned cure: a pannikin of sea water poured down his protesting gullet. Though he has never been seasick since, Commodore Bisset notes ruefully: "I have always hesitated to recommend this old-fashioned remedy to passengers in luxury liners." Another old remedy was devised for Bisset's dysentery. The captain's remedies...