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Because none of the 27 laws enacting the Five-Year Plan had yet been passed, Figuerola's job was still pretty much a promotion job. Last week, as he and other Peronistas hopefully plugged the plan as the complete cure for Argentine troubles, Porteños told a story that pointed up the need to do something...
...fastest-growing schools of therapy in the U.S. is based on pain-killing as the complete cure for many ills. Its chief method: a comparatively new technique of anesthesia known as "nerve block." Out last week was a new text (Conduction Anesthesia; Lippincott; $15) which held that nerve block is often the cure for sprains & fractures, hiccups, headaches, frostbite, sciatica, neuralgia, a score of other painful disorders...
SPRAINS. For a sprained ankle, the painful area is anesthetized and the patient walks as soon as he can; exercise tends to speed the cure (patients can walk normally in two weeks or less). Drawback: the daily injections are painful...
TWITCHING. Another peculiar disorder that causes uncontrollable twitching of the face muscles has defied cure. But surgeons have found that they can stop the twitching by blocking the facial nerve with alcohol. There are drawbacks. The patient must decide whether he prefers i) a twitching face, or 2) one permanently deadpan (i.e., paralyzed...
Dragging the audience along in his search for spiritual peace, Tyrone eventually goes on a pilgrimage to deepest India, where he picks up an interesting yoga trick that will cure headaches. Against an improbable Himalayan backdrop, he also receives from a holy man a number of fine platitudes, including the one that gives the story its title ("The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus the wise say the path of Salvation is hard...