Word: curely
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Though Britain's recovery has been helped by the improving international economic climate, the cure has been largely self-administered. The main feature is Prime Minister Harold Wilson's deal with trade unions to hold wage increases to a maximum of $12 per week, thus slowing the inflationary spiral. In addition to wage restraint, the Labor government is seeking to put Britain's nationalized industries, which have eaten up $18 billion in taxes and loans over the past few years, on a sounder economic footing. Instead of being run for such "social goals" as full employment...
...Ever since 1921, Warner-Lambert has advertised that Listerine would help to prevent colds and sore throats or at least ease their symptoms. Those claims are misleading, the FTC decided, citing scientific testimony that Listerine has "no efficacy" in either preventing or helping to cure sore throats and colds (some experts said that warm water would do as well). So the FTC ordered Warner-Lambert not only to stop making the claims but to include a statement in the next $10.2 million worth of Listerine ads-about one year's budget-that "contrary to prior advertising, Listerine will...
Plenty of Fire. The eagerness of many women to cure his headaches may have stretched the legend beyond reality. Insists one woman who moved in Kennedy's show-business social circle: "If all women who claimed privately that they had slept with Jack had really done so, he wouldn't have had the strength left to lift a teacup." Yet under all that smoke, there was apparently plenty of fire...
GREAT BOOKS AND BOOK COLLECTORS by Alan G. Thomas. 280 pages. Putnam. $35. An opulently illustrated, often witty guide to bibliophilia and its causes (there is no cure). Author Thomas, a London book dealer, discusses everything from early illuminated manuscripts to the feats of the best printers, bookbinders, illustrators, forgers and dupes. Happily, descriptions focus on people rather than techniques. Of J.P. Morgan, last of the profligate collectors, Thomas writes with typical piquancy: "He pursued the life of an unostentatious gentleman on a majestic scale...
Equus. The show to catch if you're up to leaving Harvard this weekend. Peter Shaffer's powerful play gets a fine production here, with superb acting by Dai Bradley as a boy who goes around blinding horses and Brian Bedford as the cynical psychiatrist who tries to cure him. At the W ilbur Theater, 252 Tremont Street, through January 10. Performances every evening at 8 p.m., matinees W ednesday and Saturday...