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...will give him high marks for doing as much as he has to lessen his people's poverty, cure their diseases, school them and make a nation of them. It will recognize, too, that Nehru, like China's Sun Yat-sen and Turkey's Kemal Ataturk, has had a difficult and frustrating role to .play in bringing his people into democratic nationhood under tutelage. In these pursuits, Jawaharlal Nehru has his high place, even though he will not be an ally, and is not particularly a friend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Uncertain Bellwether | 7/30/1956 | See Source »

...aged are high blood pressure, which goes with hardening of the arterioles (small arteries), and hardening of somewhat bigger arteries, especially those in the brain. Until recently, virtually nothing could be done for these cases. Doctors faced with senile arteriosclerosis shrugged and said "You can't cure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: THE PROBLEM OF OLD AGE | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

Japanese scientists have tried to cure hoshano noirozeh by statements that the radioactive rain at its present strength will not hurt anyone. The public thinks it knows better...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nuclear Neuroses | 7/16/1956 | See Source »

...market−enough to feed poisonous meals to 131,000 people. It has driven from the nation's drugstore shelves such once popular devices as eye-cup-like gadgets to restore sight, has purged labels of fanciful prose; e.g., one imaginative drugmaker touted ordinary sarsaparilla as a cure for everything from "female complaints" to syphilis. Today it approves license applications for 600 new drugs a year, modifications in 4,000 to 5,000 others. It certifies every batch of insulin made and marketed in the U.S., five major antibiotics, and all coal-tar dyes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: There Ought to Be a Law | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Billie had already gone through an expensive "cure" to kick the narcotics habit when she was arrested and convicted in Philadelphia on a dope-possession charge, and sent to prison. Less than a year after her release, she was arrested again−and acquitted−in California. The way she tells it, the deck was stacked against her. "When I was on [dope], nobody gave me any trouble," she says. "I got into trouble when I tried to get off." She was arrested last winter again in Philadelphia, where the trial is still pending. And there her story ends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Right to Sing the Blues | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

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